Hmmmm, now it says Windows 10. I don't know why it did not before. However, I am keeping my custom entry because I want it to say which version of W10 I have so I have created a custom entry to correctly report I have "Windows 10 Pro 64-bit".
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Okay, I am going crazy now because it is back to Windows 8. Not sure what is happening but I think they have some more work to do on this program. I still like it and since it is easy to customize entries I will keep using it.
Sure wish they would update BGInfo. That is one of my favorite Sysinternals programs but it just does not work correctly for folks using multimonitor setups and different backgrounds on each monitor. Oh well. 
Glad to see they are updating others in the collection. That gives me hope BGInfo will eventually be updated too.
Glad to see they are updating others in the collection. That gives me hope BGInfo will eventually be updated too.
Thanks for this Corrine. I am a bit surprised to see BgInfo on that list. It was reported in the past it would not be updated "for Windows 10".
I used it for years and it worked great - until Windows 10 came around. Text would became overlapped and unreadable. And if, like me, you used multiple monitors with one extended background image across all monitors, And you BgInfo on a secondary monitor, it would take the portion of the background from the primary monitor and use that on the secondary monitors too. So you would, for example, see two left sides of the background image.
Hmmm, something is not right. v4.21 is the same version from 2 years ago and when you download the zip file and look at the dates, the timestamps are still 10/28/2015.
I used it for years and it worked great - until Windows 10 came around. Text would became overlapped and unreadable. And if, like me, you used multiple monitors with one extended background image across all monitors, And you BgInfo on a secondary monitor, it would take the portion of the background from the primary monitor and use that on the secondary monitors too. So you would, for example, see two left sides of the background image.
Hmmm, something is not right. v4.21 is the same version from 2 years ago and when you download the zip file and look at the dates, the timestamps are still 10/28/2015.
I commented on the technet update page. It is currently awaiting moderation. So wait and see.
I sure hope they really did do something to BGInfo. Last time they said they updated it, they really didn't. It was the same v4.21, same timestamp and same file size as previously posted. This time, I see it is 4.22, the executable has a new 4/16/2017 time stamp, and the file size has grown a bit. So when I get a chance, I'll try it again and see if they did anything about W10 support (which it lacked ) and proper dual monitor support.
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From Sysmon v6.2, AccessChk 6.20, Sigcheck v2.60, Whois v1.20 – Sysinternals Site Discussion:
Sysmon v6.20
This Sysmon release adds the ability to change the Sysmon service and driver names to foil malware that use them to detect its presence.
AccessChk v6.20
This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that reports effective access and can dump access control lists, fixes a bug in that could cause it to crash when looking up account effective access checks.
Sigcheck v2.60
This release fixes catalog signing and timestamp reporting bugs, and no longer truncates publisher names that include commas.
Whois v1.20
Whois, a command-line utility that reports domain registration information for the specified domain, works with new whois registry server redirects.
Sysmon v6.20
This Sysmon release adds the ability to change the Sysmon service and driver names to foil malware that use them to detect its presence.
AccessChk v6.20
This update to AccessChk, a command-line utility that reports effective access and can dump access control lists, fixes a bug in that could cause it to crash when looking up account effective access checks.
Sigcheck v2.60
This release fixes catalog signing and timestamp reporting bugs, and no longer truncates publisher names that include commas.
Whois v1.20
Whois, a command-line utility that reports domain registration information for the specified domain, works with new whois registry server redirects.
From Autoruns v13.81, Bginfo v4.23, Handle v4.11 – Sysinternals Site Discussion:
Autoruns v13.81
This update to Autoruns fixes a Wow64 bug in Autorunsc that could cause 32-bit paths to result in 'file not found' errors, and expands the set of images not considered part of Windows for the Windows filter in order to reveal malicious files masquerading as Windows images.
Bginfo v4.23
This update to Bginfo fixes bugs that caused incorrect scaling on Windows 10 multimonitor systems.
Handle v4.11
When run on 64-bit systems, Handle now extracts the 64-bit version to the %TEMP% directory rather than the local directory.
Autoruns v13.81
This update to Autoruns fixes a Wow64 bug in Autorunsc that could cause 32-bit paths to result in 'file not found' errors, and expands the set of images not considered part of Windows for the Windows filter in order to reveal malicious files masquerading as Windows images.
Bginfo v4.23
This update to Bginfo fixes bugs that caused incorrect scaling on Windows 10 multimonitor systems.
Handle v4.11
When run on 64-bit systems, Handle now extracts the 64-bit version to the %TEMP% directory rather than the local directory.
I am very disappointed to report that Bginfo still does not work properly on multi-monitor Windows 10 systems. I just don't understand why they cannot fix this. It used to work great with Windows 7. If you have a large image set to span across all your monitors, you cannot get Bginfo to appear only on the secondary monitor (in my case, my right monitor). The only options are the Primary or All monitors.
Also, contrary to settings instructions (regardless which you select) BGinfo alters the background. In my case, it takes the right half of my image and displays it on both monitors. Why?
But also (at least in preview mode - I backed out and did not accept the changes) it wipes out any shortcut icons you have displayed on the monitor, regardless where they are located - that is, even if not under the Bginfo displayed data.
This is too bad because to me, this was a great little program.
Also, contrary to settings instructions (regardless which you select) BGinfo alters the background. In my case, it takes the right half of my image and displays it on both monitors. Why?
But also (at least in preview mode - I backed out and did not accept the changes) it wipes out any shortcut icons you have displayed on the monitor, regardless where they are located - that is, even if not under the Bginfo displayed data.
This is too bad because to me, this was a great little program.
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From Sysmon v7.0 – Sysinternals Site Discussion:
Sysmon v7.0
Sysmon now logs file version information, and the option to dump the configuration schema adds the ability to dump an older schema or dump all historical schemas.
Sysmon v7.0
Sysmon now logs file version information, and the option to dump the configuration schema adds the ability to dump an older schema or dump all historical schemas.
From Sysmon v7.01 – Sysinternals Site Discussion:
Sysmon v7.01
This release fixes a bug in v7.01 that could cause the sysmon config change event to be corrupt, as well as one that prevented registry keys from being reported with abbreviated root key names (e.g. HKLM).
Sysmon v7.01
This release fixes a bug in v7.01 that could cause the sysmon config change event to be corrupt, as well as one that prevented registry keys from being reported with abbreviated root key names (e.g. HKLM).
Apologies, obviously, I've missed a few updates. Following are the most recent:
February 19, 2019, from Sysmon v9.0, Autoruns v13.94
December 9, 2018, from Autoruns v13.93, Handle v4.21, Process Explorer v16.22, SDelete v2.02, Sigcheck v2.71, Sysmon v8.02 and VMMap v3.25:
February 19, 2019, from Sysmon v9.0, Autoruns v13.94
December 9, 2018, from Autoruns v13.93, Handle v4.21, Process Explorer v16.22, SDelete v2.02, Sigcheck v2.71, Sysmon v8.02 and VMMap v3.25:
Updates released today:
- Sysmon v10.0
This release of Sysmon adds DNS query logging, reports OriginalFileName in process create and load image events, adds ImageName to named pipe events, logs pico process creates and terminates, and fixes several bugs. - Autoruns v13.95
This Autoruns updates adds support for redirected user Shell folders.
From Windows Sysinternals
What's New (June 20, 2019)
What's New (September 05, 2019)
What's New (June 20, 2019)
What's New (September 05, 2019)
- Sysmon v10.4
This major update to Sysmon, a security event monitoring service, adds nested rule support to rule groups and “contains any” and “contains all” rule conditions for more flexible filtering, as well as several bug fixes. - Process Explorer v16.30 This update to Process Explorer adds a Shared Commit column to the process view, fixes a bug that caused it to terminate when it is configured to run at logon and the system went to battery, and fixes bugs that prevented the system CPU graph from correctly showing multiple sockets.
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