Some of the applications that are included in the Sysinternals suite should be installed on every computer such as Rootkit Revealer, Autoruns, Process Explorer and Regmon. This collection might confuse inexperienced users due to the sheer amount of exectuable files that are listed in the main directory. It is difficulty to find out what some of the executables are doing, do you know for instance what psfile.exe will do ?

It would have been nice if at least a readme file would have been included to make it easier to understand the executables. A gui would have been even better. I would advise everyone to visit the Sysinternals website to lookup the programs before you execute them.

Update: The latest version of Sysinternals Suite has a size of 13.3 Megabytes. The collection still contains all programs that have been developed and released by Sysinternals in the past. All you need to do is to download the zip file and unpack it on your system to start using the applications right away.

Some applications ship with Windows Help files that explain the program’s core functionality. Other programs are still listed without information.

This collection is ideal for a troubleshooting CD or stick that you carry around whenever to have it ready whenever you need it.

An alternative to that is Sysinternals Live, which lets you run all Sysinternals applications directly from the web.