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 “srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols”
The path for the _NT_SERVER_PATH
- Click the “Advanced Tab” -> Click “Environment Variables”
Tip: Use the flag “/accepteula” to prevent the interactive window appearing when using the tools in a batch, for example.