PsTools - Sysinternals System Management Suite

The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource Kits come with a number of command-line tools that help you administer

your Windows NT/2K systems. Over time, I've grown a collection of similar tools, including some not included in the

Resource Kits. What sets these tools apart is that they all allow you to manage remote systems as well as the local one.

The first tool in the suite was PsList, a tool that lets you view detailed information about processes, and the suite is

continually growing. The "Ps" prefix in PsList relates to the fact that the standard UNIX process listing command-line tool

is named "ps", so I've adopted this prefix for all the tools in order to tie them together into a suite of tools named

*PsTools*.

## Features

The tools included in the PsTools suite, which are downloadable as a package, are:

* PsExec - execute processes remotely

* PsFile - shows files opened remotely

* PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user

* PsInfo - list information about a system

* PsPing - measure network performance

* PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID

* PsList - list detailed information about processes

* PsLoggedOn - see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included)

* PsLogList - dump event log records

* PsPasswd - changes account passwords

* PsService - view and control services