Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools, 2nd edition

Published by Microsoft Press (October 17, 2016) © 2017

  • Mark E. Russinovich
  • Aaron Margosis

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The Sysinternals utilities are indispensable and very popular tools for diagnosing, troubleshooting, and researching the Windows platform. Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools, Second Edition, is the most accurate and complete reference for these utilities and includes an expanded “Case of the Unexplained” section that illustrates their use, detailed coverage of new tools and updated features in existing tools, and a “Procmon and ProcDump, Better Together” feature demonstrating new capabilities that the tools now enable in each other.
  • Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and 70 other powerful (and free!) utilities
  • Applicable to all technical roles on Windows, including hobbyists, developers, and researchers
  • Includes an expanded “Case of the Unexplained," detailed coverage of new tools and updated features in existing tools, and a “Procmon and ProcDump, Better Together” feature demonstrating new capabilities that the tools now enable in each other
This Second Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect new Sysinternals tools and updated features in existing tools. It contains an expanded "Case of the Unexplained" section illustrating these tools at work, and a new "Procmon and ProcDump, Better Together" feature demonstrating capabilities Procmon and ProcDump now enable in each other.
  • Part I Getting started
  • Chapter 1 Getting started with the Sysinternals utilities
  • Chapter 2 Windows core concepts
  • Chapter 3 Process Explorer
  • Chapter 4 Autoruns
  • Part II Usage guide
  • Chapter 5 Process Monitor
  • Chapter 6 ProcDump
  • Chapter 7 PsTools
  • Chapter 8 Process and diagnostic utilities
  • Chapter 9 Security utilities
  • Chapter 10 Active Directory utilities
  • Chapter 11 Desktop utilities
  • Chapter 12 File utilities
  • Chapter 13 Disk utilities
  • Chapter 14 Network and communication utilities
  • Chapter 15 System information utilities
  • Chapter 16 Miscellaneous utilities
  • Part III Troubleshooting—“The Case of the
  • Chapter 17 Error messages
  • Chapter 18 Crashes
  • Chapter 19 Hangs and sluggish performance
  • Chapter 20 Malware
  • Chapter 21 Understanding system behavior
  • Chapter 22 Developer troubleshooting

Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure, where he oversees the technical strategy and architecture of Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. He is a widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating system internals, and cybersecurity. He is the author of the Jeff Aiken cyberthriller novels, Zero Day, Trojan Horse, and Rogue Code, and co-author of the Microsoft Press Windows Internals books. Russinovich joined Microsoft in 2006 when Microsoft acquired Winternals Software, the company he cofounded in 1996, as well as Sysinternals, where he authors and publishes dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities. He is a featured speaker at major industry conferences, including Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft //build, RSA Conference, and more.

Aaron Margosis is a Principal Consultant with Microsoft’s Global Cybersecurity Practice, where he has worked with security-conscious customers since 1999. Aaron specializes in Windows security, least-privilege, application compatibility, and the configuration of locked-down environments. He is a top speaker at Microsoft conferences, and created many of the tools commonly used by organizations implementing high-security environments, including LUA Buglight, Policy Analyzer, IE Zone Analyzer, LGPO.exe (Local Group Policy Object utility), and MakeMeAdmin, which can be downloaded through his blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/aaron_margosis) or through two team blogs for which he is a primary author (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/fdcc and https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/SecGuide).

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