The Windows NT and Windows 2000 resource kits with a set of command line tools to help you manage your Windows NT/2K systems.
The first tool in the suite was PsList, a tool that gives you detailed information about processes. The „Ps“ prefix in the PsList refers to the fact that the default UNIX listing process is called command line tool „ps“. Thus, these prefixes of all tools that together form a suite of tools are called PsTools.
- PsExec – execute processes remotely
- PsFile Shows files opened remotely
- PsGetSid Display the SID of a computer or a user
- PsInfo List information about a system
- PsKill Kill processes by name or process ID
- 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 possibly reboots a computer
- Pssuspended – suspends processes
- PsUptime – shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime’s functionality has been incorporated into) PsInfo)
The PsTools download package contains an HTML help file with complete information on how to use all tools.