Microsoft Windows Sysinternals Suite with file, disk, network, process, security utilities

Hi Folks,

Today, i will give an overview of Microsoft Windows Sysinternals Suite.

This suite helps users and admins to troubleshoot the OS and devices.

Sysinternals Suite

The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities: AccessChk, AccessEnum, AdExplorer, AdInsight, AdRestore, Autologon, Autoruns, BgInfo, BlueScreen, CacheSet, ClockRes, Contig, Coreinfo, Ctrl2Cap, DebugView, Desktops, Disk2vhd, DiskExt, DiskMon, DiskView, Disk Usage (DU), EFSDump, FindLinks, Handle, Hex2dec, Junction, LDMDump, ListDLLs, LiveKd, LoadOrder, LogonSessions, MoveFile, NotMyFault, NTFSInfo, PageDefrag, PendMoves, PipeList, PortMon, ProcDump, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, PsExec, PsFile, PsGetSid, PsInfo, PsKill, PsList, PsLoggedOn, PsLogList, PsPasswd, PsPing, PsService, PsShutdown, PsSuspend, PsTools, RAMMap, RegDelNull, RegHide, RegJump, Registry Usage (RU), SDelete, ShareEnum, ShellRunas, Sigcheck, Streams, Strings, Sync, Sysmon, TCPView, VMMap, VolumeID, WhoIs, WinObj, ZoomIt

Individual Utilities

If you want to use or explore individual utilities then please use the below links for navigation

1. File and Disk Utilities
2. Networking Utilities
3. Process Utilities
4. Security Utilities
5. System Information
6. Miscellaneous

My favorites

1. DiskMon - Disk monitor whenever read/write happens to hard disk
2. Disk2vhd - Convert your physical harddisk to Microsoft VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) format
3. TCPView - List the TCP and UDP ports usage with process name
4. Active Director Explorer - Advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor
5. VMMap - Virutal and physical memory analysis utility

Hope, these tools will help you to troubleshoot and/or make use of official Microsoft utilities to explore OS more.

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Ubuntu and Windows system level utilities

Hi friends,

Please find the below links to customize or maintain your OS.

Recover data in Ubuntu
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/

Ubuntu LiveCD Customization from scratch
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch

Boot windows7 from USB
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/
http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

Windows OS Updates(SP?)
http://www.bootdisk.com/

Partition and Back utilities

Backup
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

partition
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

disk to disk copy
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

Data Recovery
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

Hope the above tools will be useful for you.

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UDPCast, udp sender and udp receiver Sharing files over LAN/Wi-Fi

Hi admins,

Have you ever thought of sending files/folders to all your systems which are connected over LAN?
Have you ever thought of copying the entire partitions including OS to all your systems with same configuration which are connected over LAN in your lab?

You might be using some proprietary tools.

Let me share my knowledge of open source tools in Ubuntu to perform the job.

It is UDP Case with following operations

1. udp-sender
2. udp-receiver

Simple usage can be seen in References 2

References

https://www.udpcast.linux.lu/cmd.html
https://www.udpcast.linux.lu/cmdlinedoc.html

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Convert windows drive or disk file system from FAT32 to NTFS without losing data

Hi all,

I had a problem with my external hard disk when copying some 25GB file.

I had troubleshoot the problem and understand that, my hard disk file system is FAT32, which can only copy max 4GB single file size

 

I was thinking without losing my data, how can I change the file system, so that, I copy more than 4GB sized single files

Then I come across the following commands in Windows

1) chkdsk : Check disk

2) convert : Convert disk file system

 

chkdsk command

Syntax

cmd> chkdsk volume_letter: [options]

Example

Checks for disk errors and fix it

cmd> chkdsk I: /f

 

convert command

Syntax

cmd> convert volume_letter: FS:NTFS [options]

Example

Convert volume from FAT to NTFS in verbose

cmd> convert I: /FS:NTFS /V

 

Possible Errors with solutions

Insufficient Memory

Reason

Nearly 4 GB files in existing FAT32 system

Solution

Move the files to local drive, do chkdsk and then convert

 

References:

http://ss64.com/nt/chkdsk.html

http://www.computerhope.com/convert.htm

 

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Mounting (Connect) external disks in Ubuntu

Hi everyone,

Most of the present Ubuntu Operating Systems will auto-mount the internal/external disks.

In some cases that may not be done automatically. In that situation, you can manually mount the media to the Ubuntu.

Here comes the mounting of external disks like HDD, Pen-drive etc in Ubuntu. 

Procedure:

1) Open terminal
2) Type sudo su in the terminal
3) Enter the password
4) Now you will be in super user mode i.e. # mode
5) Go to the desktop or some folder where you want to create a folder for mounting
    ex: # cd /home/user1/Desktop
6) Create a directory
    ex: # mkdir ExtrnDisk
7) Type the following command for NTFS disks
    # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 ExtrnDisk/ (FAT32 -- vfat)

    Type the following for rest of the disks
    # mount /dev/sdb ExtrnDisk/
8) Now you can see the drive contents mounted to ExtrnDisk folder

References:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB