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Setting up Sysinternals

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Whilst Sysinternals can be downloaded and ran from the location to which they are extracted to, there is more preferable way to install on a system in which they will be used more frequently.

  • Download Sysinternals from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

    • Extract the downloaded zip contents to: C:\Program Files (x86)\SYSINT

    • Extracting to this directory is useful for white-listing

  • Run the program “sysdm.cpl” from the Windows menu

  • Click the “Advanced Tab” -> Click “Environment Variables”

Environment Variables

Double click on the “Path” variable -> Add a new variable pointing to: C:\Program Files (x86)\SYSINT

  • Now we can run the Sysinternal tools from cmd without needing to be in the directory

Add a new System variable named “_NT_SYMBOL_PATH” with the value “srvc:\symbolshttp://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols"

The path for the _NT_SERVER_PATH
Tip

Use the flag “/accepteula” to prevent the interactive window appearing when using the tools in a batch, for example.

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