PDBRipper: Analyze binaries: Analyzes PDB files that get generated when compiling.

radare2: reverse engineering cmdline tools.

Detect-It-Easy: Analyze binaries: A binary/packer analyzer.NET process explorer / assembly browser / decompiler richprint: prints compiler information stored in a binary’s rich header (“Which Visual C compiler version was this binary built with?”).Similar to ldd on Linux and otool -m on macOS. Dependency Walker: Displays DLL dependencies of binaries.Shares much of the functionality of Process Monitor from Sysinternals, but has some interesting differences and is (other than the Sysinternals Suite) entirely Open Source. ProcessHacker: A powerful task manager.Therefore, the following isn’t a “top 100 best of list” but just a pick of some rather unknown tools, that I found to be useful for some task. In this blogpost, I would like to mention some lesser known tools that might be equally useful. Especially ProcessExplorer, a powerful task manager replacement, and ProcessMonitor, a syscall tracing tool, are widely known.

When working on Windows as a sysadmin or developer, it’s hard to get around Microsoft’s Sysinternals Suite of tools. Illustration: iStock/Getty Images (modified)

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