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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Connect or Mount USB Storage drives in Windows Linux Sub System

Hi folks,

This post will explain the process of connecting / mounting USB devices to Windows Linux Sub Systems

Mount removable media (e.g. E:)

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/e
$ sudo mount -t drvfs E: /mnt/e

Unmount

$ sudo umount /mnt/e

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Prevent from WannaCry Ransome attack by disabling SMB protocol on Windows 10

Hi friends,

I want to share my knowledge on disabling SMB protocol on Windows 10.

Procedure

1. Click on Start Menu
2. Type "Turn Windows Features On or Off"
3. Uncheck the "SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support" as shown below
4. 
5. Click on "OK"
6. It will take some time to apply the changes
7. You will be prompted with "Restart"
8. Save your any unsaved work and restart the machine
9. This is disable the SMB protocol, which is main reason to spread the WannaCry Ransome Attack

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Windows: Find which port is getting used/mapped by which process/program with details from task manager

Hi friends,

Today, I have come across with a situation of finding the port-program mapping.

Procedure

• Open command prompt
• Enter the following command
• Syntax: netstat -aon | find ":"
• Example: netstat -aon | find ":80"
• Get the PID (Process Id) from the list

• Execute the following command
• Syntax: tasklist "PID eq "
• Example: tasklist "PID eq 9192"

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Windows file name too long to delete move copy rename due to destination path too long

Hi friends,

Problem

When i am clearing my old windows folder from the OS installed drive, I had an issue of deleting the files and folder because the path name is too long.

The error message is

"Destination Path Too Long.

The file name(s) would be too long for the destination folder. You can shorten file name and try again, or try a location that has a shorter path."

Background

Windows OS will allow the file path to be max 255 characters. If any file or folder path is beyond 255 characters, you will not be able to perform any file actions like delete / move / copy / rename.

Solution

1. Navigate to the folder in the windows explorer
2. Type the following command in the address bar and hit enter key
• subst j:
3. Open a new windows explorer window
4. Now you will be able to see new drive with letter J:
5. You will be able to delete the files/folders with in the drive
6. To delete the other files, navigate to the parent folder and delete one after one or multiple folders path at a time.

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Unable to open WebEx issue on Windows 10 solution

Hi all,
I was facing an issue with opening WebEx on my Windows 10. I found the solutions from different sources and wants to share with you.

Procedure

1. Open the WebEx link in IE
2. Press F12 (Development Tools) on keyboard or from settings icon from top right corner IE
3. Navigate to “Emulation” tab
4. Select “Document Mode” as 9
5. Select “User agent string” as 9
6. Browser automatically refreshes
7. Now, you try to join/start the meeting
8. It should open the WebEx application

Please find the relevant screenshot to do the configuration

 

 

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Ubuntu Windows dual boot order changes GRUB

Hi friends,

From long time, I was thinking of modifying my default boot option to Windows instead of Ubuntu. Finally today, I've done those changes in my laptop.

My system has Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 dualboot and Ubuntu OS is my default boot option with 10 seconds timeout.

I thought of sharing the information with everyone.

Please open the terminal and run the followin commands in sequence 

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

By now, grub-customizer will be successfully installed in your PC.

Please follow the below step to do the necessary changes in boot order

• Open the grub-customizer

 

• Grub customizer lists the installed OS with versions

 

• Rename the OS entry by right clicking and selecting "Rename" option [Optional]

 

 

• Choose the default boot option by navigating to "General Settings"
• Select options from "predefined" entry

• Click on "Save" option to save all the changes.
• You can revert the changes by clicking the "Revert" option, if you feel like going back to original/initial options

Hope it would help you in changing the default boot order

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