SysInternals have released a free .wmv video file showing all their tools in action. Essential viewing. Read on for a short content review.

Sysinternals are releasing a 6 DVD video set covering windows troubleshooting topics. and that all sounds quite interesting, and they are giving away a video which provides an overview of all the tools as a free download.

49 minutes long and 105mb big, I downloaded it a few minutes after reading the item in the sysinternals rss feed.

I thought the intro might be a bit boring but I now realise that I have never really explored the sysinternals web site properly and had missed out on the forums, technical articles and interesting source code.

14 minutes in is an overview of the Process Explorer where I saw a few things I had not realised it could do. 18 minutes in is a discussion of the PSTools set which I have never used but I now have to investigate psExec, psInfo, psLogList, and psLoggedIn in detail.

24 minutes in is PendMoves which looks like a useful tool for install testing.

26 minutes is the filemon discussion, and we all know how essential that tool is for testing. Sync is going to become part of my usb drive regime. And Strings is going to be part of my testing toolkit.

35 minutes in we get to the registry tools.

38 minutes and the video covers the security tools on the site, I use AutoRuns on my own machines.

44 minutes covers the TCP/IP and networking tools. I have used TCPView to help me investigate some networking issues I had with an application I was testing.

This is a great advert for the DVD set and I found it interesting and educational viewing on its own.