SQL Server Business Intelligence: Windows System Control Center – Launch Pad and Updater for Sysinternals Suite

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Windows System Control Center – Launch Pad and Updater for Sysinternals Suite

Both Windows Sysinternals and Nirsoft offer amazing set of tools to tune up and troubleshoot PCs. The combined total of such tiny tools from both the above sites certainly exceeds hundred. Some of the tools in the suite don't have an automatic update facility, which makes managing them slightly difficult. To alleviate this problem and allow easy organizing and automatic updating of these tools, we have the Windows System Control Center tool from KLS Soft.

WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC is only an interface, you need to download and install the utilities separately. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. The included Update Manager can check for newer versions of the utilities already installed and can download and install the missing items.

The current version of WSCC supports the following utility suites:

Windows Sysinternals Suite (including support for "Sysinternals Live" service)
NirSoft Utilities

Many people (especially IT/Helpdesk techs) who use Sysinternals & Nirsoft utilities very frequently, would find Windows System Control Center very useful. This utility is completely portable, which means no installation is required. This utility runs in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7.