Introduction

NTUtils is a collection of utilities that may be useful to Win32 system administrators, in the spirit of pstools by Systems Internals (now part of TechNet). Unlike pstools, the programs in NTUtils are open-source, and demonstrate some lesser known but relatively simple techniques. As the name implies, they do not support the Windows 9x line.

Furthermore, all NTUtils programs may be built using freely-available, open-source tools.

Download

NTUtils is hosted at GitHub. You can download the most recent release from the releases there.

Installation

Place the executables somewhere in your PATH. The only run-time dependencies are on OS DLLs (including msvcrt.dll).

Uninstallation

Delete the executables. All NTUtils programs have zero-footprint, meaning all temporary files, registry entries, and any other changes to the machine exist only while the NTUtils program is running.

Contents

Each NTUtils program is designed with a Unix-like mentality: do one thing and do it well. Many of the programs share some common functionality, however.

Common Documentation

• Remote Administration - Using the NTUtils programs to administer remote machines
• Options, Output, and Return Code Standards - For building other programs on NTUtils programs
• Source Code Overview - Roadmap for the hackers among us

Individual Program Documentation

• ntpriority - Change the priority of a process
• ntsuspend - Suspend or resume running processes

Versions

A minor version number is only incremented when a release contains at least one new utility. Adding features to existing utilities will only increment the release number.

See the revision history for details of past versions.

Legal (BSD licence)

Code and documentation copyright 2005 Stephen Cleary. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of Stephen Cleary nor the names of his contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Acknowledgements

To the excellent minds at Systems Internals, for making such wonderful software freely available; to Gary Nebbett, for his research into the native NT API; and to all the developers from the Boost, Cygwin, Mingw, and win32api projects for their tireless sacrificial work - the NTUtils team acknowledges that if their programs see great things, it is because they have stood on the shoulders of great software.