Comments on: Microsoft withdraws Sysinternals source code

By: ValidFacade

ValidFacade — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:04:38 +0000

Thank god for the internet. Keeping in mind that nothing that enters into the bond of holy interwebs is ever truly freed, someone decided to rip the full sysinternals site before the acquisition. A torrent download (plus rapidshare and megaupload) can be found here. Enjoy.

By: ridgerunner

ridgerunner — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:09:25 +0000

All the sources are still there and downloadable (as of 03/20/07). Here’s a complete list (both source and executable file downloads):

The original website is mirrored here (but the download links don’t appear to work. use the urls listed above):

http://web.archive.org/web/20060428052924/www.sysinternals.com/

Much thanks to Jp for pointing this out!

rr – 20 March 2007

By: Jp

Jp — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:10:19 +0000

You can actually get the source code (still, while you can!) for some utilities by going to the MS site, and adding “Source” after the utility name but before the “.zip” extension.

Example:
ShareEnum executable download location
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ShareEnum.zip

ShareEnum SOURCE download location:
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ShareEnumSource.zip

The programs for which source is available is listed at:
http://www.sysinternals.com/SourceCode.html

HTH :)

By: Goldsacs

Goldsacs — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:12:28 +0000

Well.. that wasn’t a shock that MS would do that.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:03:16 +0000

I think the reasons are similar to the reasons for not allowing non-managed code on XNA – technically it could be done and there should be no barrier to doing it securely, but they’d rather not take the risk. A shame.

I love sysinternals tools and couldn’t live without them, although I never bothered to access the source code (therefore I’m part of the problem I guess).