Secret FREE Windows Tools Nobody Is Talking About

[@LeilaGharani]

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[@jerrydellasala7643]

Been using Sysinternals utilities since Windows 98! Here's a tip. As you noted some utilities require Admin level security. Others, notably Autoruns, may not require or ask for Admin level security when run, but to perform an operation - like Jump To (Registry) Entry in Autoruns - require Admin level to operate. Rather than having to Right Click on the app and select Run As Administrator, right click on the file (app) and select Properties, select the Compatibility tab and at the bottom click the [Change Settings for All Users] button. In the window that pops up, check the "Run this program as an Administrator" box and click OK/OK. Now you'll still get asked if you want to give the app permission to run (always), but you won't have to right click and select the Run As Admin any more!

[@TheRaju991]

Thanks for the tip!

[@silversolver7809]

SysInternals author Mark Russinovich is one of the true major contributors to the software world, along with other greats like Peter Norton, Phil Katz RIP, Nick Bradbury etc. I used SI for 15-20 years from well before Microsoft acquired it and Mark-the utilities are top class and rock solid. I don't use them anymore, as Windows today is far ahead of where it was in the 90s and 00s. But ZoomIt does look interesting :)

[@connclissmann6514]

Agreed! May I add Dan Briklin to your list? From VisiCalc to Spinrite and beyond...

[@silversolver7809]

@@connclissmann6514 Of course :) There are dozens more at least-I only mentioned a few whose work benefited me considerably. Btw I'm fairly sure Steve Gibson was the SpinRite guy :)

[@cowpen]

@@silversolver7809 Greetings fellow old guys!

[@darylcheshire1618]

way back then, I rescued several XT type machines by running Spinrite, the machines were running slowly and the users were going to get rid of them but I run Spinrite on them overnight and tell them to reboot, and all those bad sectors were returned to the system by a low level format of each block. In those days the heads didn’t park and turning off the PC might write random crap at that location. After years the hard disk would have lots of bad sectors.

[@Innesb]

@@connclissmann6514 Dan Briklin and VisiCalc co-author Bob Frankston rarely get a mention these days, but they created what was probably the first desktop ‘killer application’; the reason many people bought PCs in those days. I was lucky enough to be able to teach myself VisiCalc on a TRS-80 when I was a young teenager in the UK (early 80s), and it set me up for a successful life in the ‘computer business’. I encourage visiting Dan’s website (it’s easy to find); there’s a great history of VisiCalc there.

[@theodrummond6518]

Leila, I may not be able to watch every one of your videos but when I do, you are a blessing.

[@JEmmertz]

The stuff that has come from Mark Russinovich and his Sysinternal's team is outstanding and remarkable: There were times when they knew more about the internal workings of Microsofts file system and stuff than the people at Microsoft themselves. I was not the slightest bit surprised when Microsoft acquired them. It has always seemed like they have been able to, and allowed to, do what they are best at.

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

Thanks Leila for yet again a super useful video! You are helping us in so many ways, really appreciate! My favorite tool is Zoomit, it has been very helpful during meetings and trainings for sure! 👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for sharing, Vijay!!

[@cecilialim5181]

I can get most of ZoomIt functions except drawing. Can you help why my drawing does not work despite pressing hold shift, hold control, hold tab ….?

[@russervinsa]

Great video! I will proably start using zoomit right away. It has several tools i have been looking for. Negative commentors not worth the air.

[@AnalogX64]

You will soon be able to talk about "PC Manager" by Microsoft, which is in beta right now, its a free utility with similar features as CCLeaner (I stopped using it) for Windows 10 and 11. PS: 00:35 That is the Commodore Amiga 1000, my 2nd computer after the Commodore 64. Good times :)

[@Prometeo59]

Wow, that's great news. Microsoft should have done it years back. Or maybe make an OS that doesn't need CCleaner equivalent! Call me crazy.

By master Jedi Mark Russinovich. Made the most interesting presentations at TechEd.

[@LeilaGharani]

A legend!

[@NebRadojkovic]

I believe that it is high time someone said something very obvious but somehow avoided it. I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation, and we were thought to acknowledge the beauty around us and to have the freedom to vocalize it. So here goes. Dear Leila, your videos are not only interesting and educational, but your beauty makes them even more attractive to watch. Cheers!

[@NebRadojkovic]

Thank you!☺

[@leeprice9442]

Thank you didn’t know about this!

[@connclissmann6514]

BGInfo used on all PCs around here. Can save a lot of time and indicates last reboot time. Ready to trim the options and make the font smaller, to keep it in the top right corner.

[@cwcole]

Thanks for the information! PSExec and Process Explorer are two that I use often. PowerToys is also one of my go-to utilities and it's still available today. I still have my 1996 Sony PCV-70 166 MHz Pentium. It came with Windows 95a. I asked the Circuit City salesperson about the single USB port, and she said that it was new technology that is not yet enabled. Upgrading to Windows 95b enabled it and I added a ZIP drive. I think Windows 2000 was the last OS running on it. I skipped Windows ME (that was a terrible OS)

[@fidgetshouse]

Thank you so much. Our IT department and I have been trying to locate the source of a problem with my computer. I have never seen them use these tools to find it, so thanks so much for sharing. I am going too try these tools out. The screen annotation tool is awesome, and something I can really use while teaching. I always learn a bunch from you!

[@deltawing9]

Wow, this is powerful. Thank you Leila!

[@buggyduggy2431]

None of this is for a normal person.

[@chrism9037]

Wow, thanks Leila! I had never heard of this. I've used Power Toys, but never knew of this.

[@gennarocimmino]

thanks for sharing all those key combinations for using zoomit. Kudos for the clarity of presentation.

[@jig270]

Autologon is a must for me for my home computer. when i hire someone for IT support job i always ask "tell me about any three sysinternal tools that you use". many of them scratch heads as nowadays true IT professionals are very hard to find. using them for last 18 years, they are still relevant for example you don't use use built-in tools of a compromised system you use sysinternals. Even in your comments i see people not understanding their importance.

[@sugathmudalige1265]

Thanks for this valuable video, Watching from Sri Lanka, Sharing knowledge is highly appreciated.

[@sergiomoura5371]

ZoomIT is definitely my favorite tool. Thank you for the great video, Leila!

[@MeRGB2]

These Is The Best Channle In My Life Thanks 😁

[@randallgreen4084]

Been using sysinternals since the 90's. Shortcut to procexp64 is on my desktop because I tend to use it, a lot.

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@radicalrick9587]

*Been using Sysinternals for a while. Phenomenal programs for us deep IT troubleshooters.*

[@sseemm]

Wonderful. Thanks

[@ronalcasid3844]

My favorite is psexec. I often fall back to it when Microsoft's newer remote admin tools fail. I use it to execute commands on remote computers.

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@JJ_TheGreat]

10:56 For this task, I like the program LockHunter!

[@MarkJFellows]

Hi Leila, I like sysinternals too, and I am a longterm user. My favourite utility is ShareX which does screen capture - image, GIFs and OCR. I have a multibutton mouse and one mode is permanently set to ShareX so when watching something, I can quickly capture it.

[@yossiea]

With Sysinternals and PowerToys, you can really have some fun,

[@naderhumood1199]

Thank you very much indeed, you outdid yourself today.........Great utility apprauch.

[@suhailanjumabdurraheemsayy7639]

Thanks for nice information!!! On Windows 11 Store it's available as an app. Is it having all the similar functions?

[@collinstanton]

Extraordinary, you are very gracious for sharing such advanced tools. Thank you so much, even though, it's definitely required learning for me... 😂🥰🌹

[@SHADOW4301]

Yes, secrets that have been well publicized and available for 20 years.

[@garynagle3093]

Great video. I use process explorer daily. Now need to check out the others . Thanks!

[@Tommie_Rogers]

I use ZoomIt all the time when I present training sessions. I did not know about SysInternals but installed Zoomit separately. It is an extremely useful tool when students request me to enlarge a portion of the screen, like the formula bar in Excel, so that they can see the function/formula in more detail.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for sharing!

[@alanmonaghan9194]

If you are watching someone's presentation in Teams, I think holding Ctrl and using the scroll wheel allows you to zoom in and out. You can also then drag to other parts of the presentation area.

[@shivananddeshpande8480]

How easy for a layman like me. Is there any simpler method by which I can speed up the boot windows 10. I have tried all available in you tube so far.

[@adrianstephens56]

Your title is an oxymoron. It's hardly secret if it's on KZbin, and "nobody is talking about" is not true - you are talking about it.

[@steves470]

I just tried to start Zoomit from the SysInternalsSuite folder, on Windows 11, V.10.0.22621 N/A Build 22621 and the (not sure what you officially call it) ..box/prompt appears, telling me: "The application you're trying to install isn't a Microsoft-verified app" and then I can click "Get apps from store", or "Install anyway". Other items, like AutoRun64 do not give me this prompt, even if i run as admin. Any thoughts on this? Thanks!

[@rjwije4874]

Great video, I Sub'd to you.

[@mcdonamw]

I love these tools and there are so many that I have never even touched upon in the last 23 years of using this suite! Mark Russinovich and team were true Windows pioneers and helped me learn a lot of the innards of Windows.

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@TronSAHeroXYZ]

Why you still use windows baffles the mind... All it's doing is eves dropping on you.

[@GnarlsGnarlington]

Wow, Leila! Intelligent, attractive, nerdy... you are my dream girl! 🤟

[@riptoff433]

lol @ Secret FREE Windows Tools Nobody Is Talking About Nobody talks about falling off their dinosaur anymore either. Everyone over 65 has used Sysinternals utilities for decades.

[@CarlReznik]

Hello Leila, Thank You for the refresher video. I have been using some of the tools since the early releases. What tool do you use to get the Mouse to right-click the icon on the video to demonstrate the tutorial?

[@CesarPeron]

"Windows System Control Center" is the tool to download and manage these tools comfortably, and the best, update everything with a click

[@Daithai96]

Great video. I've used Sysinternals since long before MS acquired them. Autoruns and ProcMon have always been fantastic tools. Mark Russinovich is definitely a genius. I've not looked at them in while, but I'll download the full suite and look through it again. I love the manual side to these tools, rather than relying on blackbox utilities to address issues.

[@crcurran]

Windows 11 has zoom built in. Press Window Key and the + key to zoom in. Then + and - to zoom in and out. I've been using Sysinternals since the 90s. Mark Russinovich was a windows God to young system engineer me back then.

[@j.l.w9563]

I'm going through what is likely by the end to be 50-100 videos for a course. Some hours long. Almost all of them done by men and in a very dry format. The tiny bit of humour you put in where you said that computers used to be different and so did you and a picture of you was so unexpected that I laughed really hard!

[@AnyMEmdq]

I opened this video ready to find some third party crap that nobody needs and everyone knows, or useless tools that are built into Windows. I'm pleased to be wrong, this is actually useful, and I hope more people did talk about them. One detail, though, Microsoft products and processes tend to be the ones that you'd want to stop/prevent from running. Yes, the tools allow to hide specifically those, but those are the ones you should put under the microscope the most (together with your useless McAfee suit I saw there, that should be just immediately uninstalled)

[@haywirekwek]

My Surface Laptop has been quite choppy especially when using the mouse and keyboard. Which tool should I download to check what's going on with my laptop??

[@theworldbroker]

Does it not make issues with other shortcuts?

[@georgep.v9751]

I have shared the vedio to my family members for try. They will easily understand tbe procedures than me. After getting their report, I have to try. OK. Thank you very much for this efforts.

[@kevinbarrett1362]

Wow most of these windows tools I actually need because I've been looking for tools like these. Great video instruction that's a sub from me. 😊

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to have you aboard!

[@mikecarey1990]

I have Windows 11 on my HP Desktop, and when the electricity get cut off,, I am locked out for 2 hours. Is there a way to fix this?

[@danbromberg]

Often my system goes through a "spinning circle" tantrum; how would you suggest using Process Explorer or Process Monitor to find the culprit who is causing it?

[@bernardlemaitre4701]

Are these tools truly usefule ? I doubt. For instance some one are dangereous as "contig" to defragment files which is not really advised on SSD...

[@Turco949]

LOL....no one was talking about them? Someone is late to the party!

[@Lofote]

Hm, every IT guy is talking and using these tools for 20+ years and there are looooooooooooooooooooots of talks and books, so "secret" or "nobody is talking about" is definitely not true ;)...

[@k3ppi537]

Those ms stuff are evil, windows etc its spyware none of people need or want these really. You can format c: and select linux distro what you like and install and have tutorials from youtube

[@callisoncaffrey]

Rufus to make a Linux or BSD bootable flash drive?

[@cseonlineclassesmalayalam]

Very valuable video 👍 thank you

[@kraj1966]

My favorite tool is Autoruns. That is helping too much in speeding up my Windows. Thank you for the tutorial

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@joseotoya2102]

Excellent! Many thanks Leila! 🙏

[@wildyato3737]

0:47 God Mode? 2:31 CTRL + - 4:57 Win 10 Task manager is way better than this😅

[@jonasfermefors]

I used to use Sysinternals a lot, but now I rarely use it because most of the things I used to use regularly have either become part of Windows or Power Toys.. for example, checking open files is now a right-click away with Power Toys and a lot of the tools I used to use in Zoomit are now built in to Teams. There are still some use cases for Sysinternals but mostly for developers, I think.

[@JBB685]

Zoomit is built into teams?!

[@martyc5674]

Can we use zoomit in teams??

[@jonasfermefors]

@@JBB685 No, but a lot of drawing tools are available.. not the timer or zooming - but personally I don't use those.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@martyc5674 No, but a lot of drawing tools are available.. not the timer or zooming - but personally I don't use those.

[@martyc5674]

@@jonasfermefors any that you recommend?- what I use zoomit for is the arrows squares/drawing - I haven’t come across any that are native to Teams, would love to hear of one that is.

[@maliawhite4912]

ZoomIt is my favorite. Thank you!

[@endotherm]

Windows PCs did not look like that in the mid '90s, that was an Amiga 1000 from the mid- '80s.

[@barb0ful]

Process Explorer helped me to solve a little mystery with my application at a customer computer. It requires a couple of dll's that usually are registered in GAC. Despite all needed dll's were there (I mean particular versions), application was still throwing exception. Process Explorer was actually my last resort help. What I found thanks to it, was that system provided an old dll version to the application because someone had copied an old version one of dll's into c:\windows\system32 which should never be there. Even correct dll version existed in my application folder and in GAC, the old one was being called.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for sharing your use case!

[@barb0ful]

@@LeilaGharaniMy pleasure! :)

[@RainWalking]

Goes from Nobody Is Talking About to not many people. well that ios a contracition.

[@wildernesshermit2126]

It's a scam, done the research on it. I wanted to believe that it was for real, but glad I checked it out before committing.

[@DeltaDemon1]

Was using this up until Windows 7...Then I lost track of it. Gonna get it eventually again.

[@bernardgarrett3897]

Hardly a secret then is it,If it's been around since the 90's. Because it is new to you, it hardly makes it a secret.

[@LightShadow]

My fav. tools are Total Commander AND Listary Pro

[@princedemiterios2488]

Very useful tools as perfect intro , Thank you .

[@thebhaskarjoshi]

3:40 Does it also record voice during the recording?

[@jessejames586]

Another click bait title no one is talking about but you'll be surprised what happens next!

[@cecilialim5181]

I can get most functions in ZoomIt except Drawing. Anyone can help please?

[@hendrikjbboss9973]

Why would you want to spend money and time on Microsoft stuff if you can get Linux for free 😢😢

[@Hitman-gl2hc]

Watching the video till mid,,, suddenly realising I am a Mac owner/user

[@raula.8881]

Hello, I'm facing unexpected issue. Would appreciate the help. While my window 7 is booting, if i press any keyboard key, the boot is getting stuck and because of that, im not able to get in bios or boot menu. Gigabyte H55M-S2 MoBo. Award Bios. Any idea for that???

[@Abdullahiqbal.]

I work with my friends daily, during work I want to hide some area of my screen. how can I do?

[@nioxic77]

lol... that guy writing code at 4:28, doesnt write anything at all, despite his constant typing... :D

[@juanvera4122]

I’ll be using this for Auto Run.

[@JA-xw9uf]

Hi Ma'am, please tell me, I working as an administrator in a building site dealing in accounts and corresspondences mostly using MS-Word and MS -Excel and plan to introduce my system to a trading platform (MT4) what would you suggest me to put off /on after down loading 'sysinternals'.... Thanks.

[@emagoutard2576]

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[@B12ALPINA]

Thank you very much Leila

[@tigerscott2966]

I have Xero Linux installed on an old PC with an 8 core processor and 8 gigs of ram... I did one update after I first installed the operating system... That computer is not only fast, it's never produced one single error either in 6 months.. Xero Linux is FREE and so are all the programs and apps... Run this from a flash drive or install a virtual machine and run it as a guest operating system inside of Windows...

[@lurkerrekrul]

It's really ironic for Microsoft to be offering tools to help you control your computer after they made a point of taking away a user's ability to control what Windows Update will do to their system. If they REALLY wanted to give users control over their systems, they wouldn't have made all their updates mandatory.

[@silverfox9947]

Can't be that secret if you know about it, can it? You are really good at what you do but please don't fall for the click bait pursuance of views on KZbin. You, of all people, should know this. You make great content, but at over 2 million subscribers you can afford to be more genuine. You have so much potential, so you really don't need click bait tactics to achieve your goal. Please don't take this the wrong way, we just want you to succeed.

[@alanmott-smith9358]

Nah, Windows is a terrible O.S. Open Source is the only way.

[@rjl7655]

Almost everyone knows about these... nice clickbait though...

[@chilledwalrus]

I like the Powerblock utility. Once toggled on it prevents the entire computer from being turned on at all! Very useful when you have small children or a house sitter, etc.

[@zubair.khan_]

Where's that?

[@5idi]

Wait, if the computer can't be turned on, how do you toggle this off???

[@chilledwalrus]

There’s a key combination: CTRL-Shift-F12 that you hold down while pressing the reset button.

[@jamesbobo]

This is much too complicated for 99.9999% of people. It's all Greek to me.

[@CurtisHoareau]

Dump all sysinternals files in windows folder... Then you can "run" procexp by typing it.. If you want to elevate cmd to admin hold ctrl+shift then enter ..i ain't got time to use a mouse to find an right click..

[@dallaspersonalshopping2299]

I like the idea of the nvidia studio updates, but recently the monitor blinks every 2 hrs+, I just changed it back to the gaming update. i have 32gb @3300 ram and a samsung evo ssd.

[@tigerscott2966]

It's already too late for Windows... It's only useful if it's not connected to the internet...

[@hatem0]

Lol, I had to zoom on your picture. You always and still look amazing

[@XPFTP]

anything for clicks. sad how the net has become.. these tools are so old. as old as the crust on your undies

[@bobdaa]

Hey you are awesome at what you are doing ....can you please help me with one thing so in my team there is a guy who is changing the VBA code he knows the password and as a part of the team i need to share the password,,, is there any method where he can see the VBA code but not understand anything or can't make any changes may be any kind of encryption method or else...pls awaiting eagerly for your response and suggestions as I need it really badly....thanks in advanced

[@isubiez]

i cant go without the EVERYTHING program when i do a fresh install makes finding any of my programs instantly without me having to go through all my drives and find where i saved it to either run it or just install it on the next build it is the first thing that gets downloaded every time