Sysinternals isn't available via winget, despite documentation claiming that it is

[mariobrostech]

Hi,

Although the documentation claims that the Sysinternals Suite of applications is available via winget, this doesn't appear to be the case on any of the systems I've tested. The only place where I can find the Sysinternals programs available is on the official website and Microsoft Store. Is there any reason why this might be? Other Microsoft programs that claim to be available on winget, such as Windows Terminal or PowerShell work just fine, but Sysinternals doesn't show up in any search results.

Here's the link to the documentation I'm referencing, if that's helpful: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/#whats-new-october-14-2021

Thanks in advance for your help!

[ItzLevvie]

Windows Package Manager (WinGet) now allows you to install free apps from the Microsoft Store rated E (everyone) as part of the msstore source which is enabled by default on everyone's devices.

One of the side effects of app developers publishing to the Microsoft Store is that it'll also be available in the Windows Package Manager.

At the moment, Sysinternals is only available in the Windows Package Manager's msstore source.

It's currently not in the Windows Package Manager's winget source because the Windows Package Manager doesn't support .zip files yet.

Sysinternals doesn't show up in any search results.

It looks like your system doesn't have the msstore source (or you manually removed it) so you're unable to download and install Sysinternals.

You can reset your sources by doing winget source reset --force with administrator privileges which will bring back the msstore source.

[mariobrostech]

That makes sense; thanks for the clarification! So, to clarify, why would this be the case while other Microsoft apps are available directly via winget? Is it because they're somehow packaged differently? And, is there any hope of Sysinternals making it onto the winget repositories, or will it remain a Microsoft Store exclusive for the foreseeable future?

[ItzLevvie]

Is it because they're somehow packaged differently?

Sysinternals in the Microsoft Store is a MSIX-packaged app, but on their website it's bundled as .zip file which WinGet doesn't support as a InstallerType.

And, is there any hope of Sysinternals making it onto the winget repositories, or will it remain a Microsoft Store exclusive for the foreseeable future?

WinGet will soon support .zip files in the future—probably future versions of the 1.3 client—which will allow Sysinternals to be added to the winget-pkgs repository.

Though, now that it's in the Microsoft Store and is available as part of the msstore source, I don't know if the developer wants the package to be in the winget-pkgs repository or not.

[mariobrostech]

Ok, thanks for the clarification!

[Fred-IV]

I really want to see a bette installer. Maybe winget would be it.
The big problem now is having to copy files around and manually make shortcuts. then no updating.
Maybe winget would fix this?

[Trenly]

Winget can do most of this already. Take a look at Microsoft.Sysinternals.ProcessMonitor as an example. Using winget show Microsoft.Sysinternals.ProcessMonitor indicates that it is a portable binary, and using winget install Microsoft.Sysinternals.ProcessMonitor will download it and make it available as a command in PATH.

[malkia]

I was looking for latest RamMap, and it's available only from the msstore but then it get's weird to add PATH to it, as if the version changes I'll have to update it. The winget store does not have it:

C:\>winget install "Microsoft.SysInternals.PsTools"
Found PsTools Suite [Microsoft.Sysinternals.PsTools] Version 2023.04.11
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.sysinternals.com/files/PSTools.zip
  ██████████████████████████████  5.03 MB / 5.03 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Extracting archive...
Successfully extracted archive
Starting package install...
Command line alias added: "psexec"
Command line alias added: "psfile"
Command line alias added: "psgetsid"
Command line alias added: "psinfo"
Command line alias added: "pskill"
Command line alias added: "pslist"
Command line alias added: "psloggedon"
Command line alias added: "psloglist"
Command line alias added: "pspasswd"
Command line alias added: "psping"
Command line alias added: "psservice"
Command line alias added: "psshutdown"
Command line alias added: "pssuspend"
Path environment variable modified; restart your shell to use the new value.
Successfully installed

C:\>winget search SysInternals
Name                              Id                                     Version    Match             Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sysinternals Suite                9P7KNL5RWT25                           Unknown                      msstore
TCPView                           Microsoft.Sysinternals.TCPView         4.19       Tag: sysinternals winget
Sysmon                            Microsoft.Sysinternals.Sysmon          15.11      Tag: sysinternals winget
Strings                           Microsoft.Sysinternals.Strings         2.54       Tag: sysinternals winget
Process Monitor                   Microsoft.Sysinternals.ProcessMonitor  3.96       Tag: sysinternals winget
Handle                            Microsoft.Sysinternals.Handle          5.0        Tag: sysinternals winget
FindLinks                         Microsoft.Sysinternals.FindLinks       1.1        Tag: sysinternals winget
Desktops                          Microsoft.Sysinternals.Desktops        2.01       Tag: sysinternals winget
BGInfo                            Microsoft.Sysinternals.BGInfo          4.32       Tag: sysinternals winget
Autoruns                          Microsoft.Sysinternals.Autoruns        14.10      Tag: sysinternals winget
ZoomIt                            Microsoft.Sysinternals.ZoomIt          8.01       Tag: sysinternals winget
Process Explorer                  Microsoft.Sysinternals.ProcessExplorer 17.06      Tag: sysinternals winget
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Microsoft.Sysinternals.RDCMan          2.93                         winget
PsTools Suite                     Microsoft.Sysinternals.PsTools         2023.04.11                   winget
Sigcheck                          Microsoft.Sysinternals.Sigcheck        2.90                         winget

[mdanish-kh]

Feel free to open a package request over at the WinGet Community repository to add this package