Microsoft starts to mess with Sysinternals tools

Today I checked if there where any updates for one or several of my Sysinternals tools. To my suprise, all Sysinternals tools have been rebuilt on November 1st, 2006.

I compared what was changed. It seems like most code is just a recompile with different compiler settings. Microsoft has also placed a giantic new EULA in each and every executable. (all *.EXE have about the 2x - 4x the size they had before)

When Microsoft took over Sysinternals, they just packed the old executables together with new licenses. Now it seems they are messing around.

If you still want to get the latest "Sysinternals" version of your beloved tools, you should do it quickly, since nobody knows how long the old links will be working.

Just go to the new Sysinternals homepage, grab a link (like http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/<blabla>.zip) and replace "download" with "www". This way you can still get the old (working... ) versions of the tools.