Introduction
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.
The tools included in the PsTools suite, which are downloadable
individually or as a package, are:
- PsExec - execute processes remotely
- PsFile - shows files opened remotely
- PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user
- PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID
- PsInfo - list information about a system
- 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
- PsShutdown - shuts down and optionally reboots a computer
- PsSuspend - suspends processes
- PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime's functionality has been incorporated into PsInfo)
All of the utilities in the PsTools suite work on Windows NT,
Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The PsTools download package includes
an HTML help file with complete usage information for all the tools.
Installation
None of the tools requires any special installation. You don't even need
to install any client software on the remote computers at which you target
them. Run them by typing their name and any command-line options you want.
To show complete usage information, specify the "-?" command-line option.
Download PsTools Suite (550 KB)
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