Have you ever wanted to execute a SysInternals tool over the web without first downloading them from the web site? This can be particularly useful if you’re running scripts and you can’t guarantee that a tool will be available on the machine the script is running on, but you know it’ll have Internet access.
We’re excited to announce the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as \live.sysinternals.comtools<toolname> or view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com.
For example, a common thing you may want to do is to flush the write cache on all drives on a system to ensure that if you disconnect one of them, like a USB drive, that it won’t lose any unwritten data and leave the drive in a corrupt state.
You could run the following line: \live.sysinternals.comtoolssync.exe
And the SysInternals tool "Sync" would be executed from the SysInternals Live site and flush the write back caches on all drives.
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