founder bryce cogswell and mark russinovich headquarters austin texas united states parent microsoft website www.sysinternals.com windows sysinternals is a part of the microsoft technet website which offers technical resources and utilities to manage diagnose troubleshoot and monitor a microsoft windows environment . 1 originally the sysinternals website formerly known as ntinternals 2 was created in 1996 and was operated by the company winternals software lp 1 which was located in austin texas . it was started by software developers bryce cogswell and mark russinovich . 1 microsoft acquired winternals and its assets on july 18 2006 . 3 the website featured several freeware tools to administer and monitor computers running microsoft windows . the software can now be found at microsoft . the company also sold data recovery utilities and professional editions of their freeware tools . contents 1 winternals software lp 1.1 source code and technology 2 products 3 licensing issue with best buy 4 see also 5 references 6 external links winternals software lp edit winternals software lp was founded by bryce cogswell and mark russinovich who sparked the 2005 sony bmg cd copy protection scandal in an october 2005 posting to the sysinternals blog . 4 on july 18 2006 microsoft corporation acquired the company and its assets . russinovich explained that sysinternals will remain active until microsoft agrees on a method of distributing the tools provided there . 5 however nt locksmith a windows password recovery utility was immediately removed . citation needed currently the sysinternals website is moved to the windows sysinternals website and is a part of microsoft technet . 1 in late 2010 bryce cogswell retired from sysinternals . 6 source code and technology edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message most of the utilities that were developed were usually accompanied with the source code written in c c or assembly language . the code was compatible with visual c v. 6.0 and could be compiled with little effort by a windows developer . some of the more interesting utilities did not come with source code or a lesser version would be available with the source . in later releases there were 64 bit versions of the utilities and even linux versions as well . citation needed however since the microsoft acquisition none of the utilities currently available are accompanied by source code and the linux versions are no longer maintained or available . some of the coding tricks used were based on the windows native api ntapi which was and still is mostly undocumented by microsoft . using these coding examples with source would enable developers to create extraordinary programs that performed operations that would otherwise have been impossible using a standard api . examples include hiding registry information intercepting or hooking apis to monitor file operations by the os as well as registry operations . products edit windows sysinternals supplies users with numerous free utilities most of which are being actively developed by mark russinovich and bryce cogswell 7 such as process explorer an advanced version of windows task manager 8 autoruns which windows sysinternals claims is the most advanced manager of startup applications 9 rootkitrevealer a rootkit detection utility 10 contig pagedefrag and a total of 65 other utilities . 11 ntfsdos which allowed ntfs volumes to be read by microsoft s ms dos operating system is now discontinued and is no longer available for download . 11 a larger number of these utilities are nowadays bundled by the publishers for the sake of simpler downloading of all or most current versions in the so called sysinternals suite . previously available for download was the winternals administrator pak which contained erd commander 2005 remote recover 3.0 ntfsdos professional 5.0 crash analyzer wizard filerestore 1.0 filemon enterprise edition 2.0 regmon enterprise edition 2.0 ad explorer insight for active directory 2.0 and tcp tools . on may 18 2010 sysinternals released its first new utility since its acquisition by microsoft . named rammap it is a diagnostic utility similar to the memory tab of windows resource monitor but more advanced . rammap runs only on windows vista and later . 12 licensing issue with best buy edit in april 2006 geek squad a tech support company working in cooperation with best buy was accused of using unlicensed versions of the erd commander software . winternals supplied best buy with copies of its software so that best buy could evaluate the software while conducting contract negotiations for using it on a permanent basis . when contract talks broke down best buy did not notify its geek squad agents to stop using the software and discard all copies . a judge granted a restraining order on april 14 requiring that use of all unlicensed software be stopped and forcing best buy to turn over all copies of winternals software within 20 days . 13 after settlement a version of the winternals software was released to be used by geek squad . 14 see also edit list of companies based in austin texas references edit a b c d windows sysinternals . microsoft technet . microsoft corporation . august 12 2009 . retrieved august 15 2009 . mark russinovich may 9 2011 . podnutz episode 64 mark russinovich talks tech flash podcast . podnutz . event occurs at 0 02 01 . retrieved june 18 2011 . ... that s when sysinternals started originally called ntinternals ... microsoft acquires winternals software . company press releases . winternals software . july 18 2006 . retrieved july 18 2006 . mark russinovich october 31 2005 . sony rootkits and digital rights management gone too far . sysinternals blog . retrieved december 18 2006 . mark russinovich july 18 2006 . on my way 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