Scripting software & tools
The editors, IDEs, runtimes, and utilities that pair well with the scripts on this site — curated, not hosted. Each link goes to the official source.
🐞 Debugging & Sysinternals
AccessChk
Sysinternals tool for checking effective permissions on files, keys, and services.
API Monitor
Monitors and displays Win32 API calls made by applications.
Autoruns
Sysinternals tool showing every program configured to run at startup or logon.
BgInfo
Sysinternals tool that displays system info directly on the desktop background.
DebugView
Sysinternals real-time debug output viewer.
Dependency Walker
Scans Windows modules and lists their dependent DLLs.
Fiddler
Web debugging proxy for capturing and inspecting HTTP(S) traffic.
Handle
Sysinternals tool listing open handles for any process on the system.
ProcDump
Sysinternals command-line tool for creating process dumps on trigger conditions.
Process Explorer
Sysinternals tool for inspecting what processes and handles are doing on your system.
Process Monitor
Sysinternals real-time file system, registry, and process activity monitor.
PsExec
Sysinternals tool for executing processes on remote systems.
PsList
Sysinternals command-line tool for listing detailed process information.
Regshot
Compares registry snapshots to see what an installer or script changed.
Sysinternals Strings
Sysinternals tool for finding printable strings inside binary files.
Sysinternals Whois
Sysinternals command-line whois lookup client.
Sysmon
Sysinternals system activity monitoring service that logs to the Windows event log.
System Informer
Advanced task manager and process/system monitor (formerly Process Hacker).
TCPView
Sysinternals tool showing active TCP/UDP endpoints and their owning processes.
VMMap
Sysinternals tool for analyzing a process's virtual and physical memory use.
WinDbg
Microsoft's Windows kernel and user-mode debugger.
Wireshark
The standard open-source network protocol analyzer.
x64dbg
Open-source user-mode debugger for Windows binaries.