Five Windows Sysinternals utilities can aid in desktop troubleshooting

When you need to troubleshoot or gain insight into Windows systems, Sysinternals tools are among your best options. In case you are not familiar with the Sysinternals suite, it is a collection of free tools provided by Microsoft. Typically, these utilities go way beyond the functionality of the native Windows tools and provide some fairly advanced capabilities.

There are dozens of different Windows Sysinternals tools, all of which can be downloaded for free. Let's take a look at five particularly useful tools.