The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. ## Package parameters - `/InstallDir` - Installation directory, by default Chocolatey tools dir... More information

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their ... More information

If you don't already have Visual Studio installed on your computer, Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 provides the essential tools for building managed applications. These tools previously were included in the .NET Framework, but they are now available as this separate download. The Visual Basic and C# compilers are also included in this... More information

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs... More information

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages. The core of WiX is a set of build tools that build Windows Installer packages using the same build... More information

Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 provides the required tools for building C++ applications and libraries targeting Windows desktop. If you want to build your C++ projects targeting Windows desktop without having Visual Studio installed on your computer, Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 provides C++ compilers libraries, build scripts, and Windows SDKs. The d... More information

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. T... More information

Partition Wizard Free Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. Our partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7/8. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Func... More information

NirLauncher is a package of more than 180 portable freeware utilities for Windows, all of them developed by NirSoft. ## Features - NirLauncher can be used from USB flash drive without need of any installation. - NirLauncher and all the utilities in the package are completely freeware, without any Spyware/Adware/Malware. This package doesn't conta... More information

SpaceSniffer is a **freeWare** (donations are welcome) and **portable** tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a [Treemap](http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/) visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices. [Treema... More information

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Handle is a utility that displays information about open handles for any process in the system. You can use it to see the programs that have a file open, or to see the object types and names of all the handles of a program.

### Overview Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 provides the essential tools for building C++ applications and libraries targeting Windows desktop. If you want to build your C++ projects targeting Windows desktop without having Visual Studio installed on your computer, Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 provides the requisite C++ compilers, libraries, build scri... More information

osquery allows you to easily ask questions about your Linux, OSX, and Windows infrastructure. Whether your goal is intrusion detection, infrastructure reliability, or compliance, osquery gives you the ability to empower and inform a broad set of organizations within your company. ### Package Parameters * `/InstallServ... More information

Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main wind... More information

Du (disk usage) reports the disk space usage for the directory you specify. By default it recurses directories to show the total size of a directory and its subdirectories.

These are the utilities I install on a fresh Windows dev machine. I recommend you set a user environment variable of "chocolatey_bin_root" with a value of "bin" or "tools" etc. This prevents packages like Ruby from installing in the root of C:. The easiest way to set chocolatey_bin_root is to execute cinst binroot, then open a new con... More information

Lynx Toolkit is a collection of small command line tools for C# developers: - source code clean-up - property code generation - update file headers - updating version numbers in assemblyinfo files - extract sections from change logs and more

### Overview These Build Tools allow you to build native and managed MSBuild-based applications without requiring the Visual Studio IDE. There are options to install the Visual C++ compilers and libraries, MFC, ATL, and C++/CLI support. To find out what's new or to see the known issues, see the [Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes](https://www.visua... More information

An unattended install of SQL Server Data Tools (Visual Studio 2013)

###Overview of VMware Tools VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality. Installing VMware Tools eliminates or improves t... More information

Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders.

These are the utilities I install on a fresh Windows dev virtual machine. I recommend you set a user environment variable of "chocolatey_bin_root" with a value of "bin" or "tools" etc. This prevents packages like Ruby from installing in the root of C:. The easiest way to set chocolatey_bin_root is to execute cinst binroot, then open a... More information

Enhancements for Powershell in Visual Studio 2015 including: syntax highlighting with customizable fonts and colors; intellisense for variables, cmdlets and arguments; Powershell project templates; Powershell MSBuild project options; Breakpoint and breakpoint pane support; Stepping; Locals support; Call stack support; Data tips and testing.