[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Process Explorer 1.0 - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Thu, Nov 9 2006 12:05 bradley

Process Explorer 1.0

http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2006/11/09/filemon-and-regmon-no-more-long-live-procmon.aspx

Seeing reports that Process Explorer 1.0 on some machines is eating up the CPU process.  For a workaround, some are reporting to open the task manager firs, then ProcMon.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

But watch the EULA  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/licensingfaq.mspx

Q: May I freely load or use Sysinternals utilities on computers that I support but do not own?

A: No. You will need to contact Microsoft Sysinternals Licensing (syslic@microsoft.com) and inquire about fee based licensing options.

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# re: Process Explorer 1.0

Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:19 PM by Craig

I read the EULA over, and couldn't find any reference that suggested I wasn't allowed to use ProcMon on any PC I liked. Can someone with a bit more of a legal bent comment?

# re: Process Explorer 1.0

Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:30 PM by sandi

I strongly believe that Process Monitor should be made available for free to volunteer malware fighters upon application, especially considering corporations can install PM as many times as they want on a corporate network.

# re: Process Explorer 1.0

Friday, November 10, 2006 5:20 AM by David

So on a machine we don't own, we have to get the owner to come and sit at the keyboard and walk them through the download and installation of any sysinternal tools??

# re: Process Explorer 1.0

Monday, November 13, 2006 1:19 PM by Joe

But then there is this:

Q: Will Microsoft change the licensing agreement for the Sysinternals tools and their use?

A: Yes, but we've made the license terms more liberal. Companies can now install and use the software throughout their organization, as opposed to a single user limitation.

Which to me negates the first rule. They need to clarify this.