I use a whole bunch of the Sysinternals tools on my USB stick when checking computers for viruses and fixing other problems. On every new computer, each of the tools first pops up the Microsoft License Agreement box which you have to agree to. It is just one click but it gets annoying over time.
Update October 2017
I learned that rather than accepting the Eula for every program, there is now a global key for all Sysinternals programs, just use:
reg.exe ADD HKCU\Software\Sysinternals /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Sysinternals /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /fI don't know whether really old programs check for this, but all the new ones that are not part of the list below should.
Original Post:
So I use a small batch file "FixReg.cmd" which among other things has the following lines:
reg.exe ADD HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsList /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsInfo /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PSexec /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Process Explorer" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Process Monitor" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Autoruns" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\TCPView" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\RootkitRevealer" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
I run this on every new computer before I do anything else. After all I have already read and agreed to the license terms more than once. As you can see from the HKCU registry hive, each user has to agree separately.
When using the psexec.exe tool with the -s switch to run a command prompt under the almighty System account, you first have to agree to the License Agreement, which is fine. But then when you want to work with additional Sysinternals tools within the System console, you have a problem. When starting pskill.exe for example, the program tries to pop up the License Agreement dialog box. This does not work because the system account session does not have a desktop at this point and the program hangs because nobody can ever agree to the License Agreement.
To fix this, add a few more lines to the FixReg.cmd batch:
reg.exe ADD HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Sysinternals\PSexec /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Sysinternals\PsList /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Sysinternals\PsInfo /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
The System account looks in the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT section of the registry for any settings it should use.
Now you can kill processes that you couldn't kill as normal administrator:
psexec.exe -s cmd.exe pskill.exe badprogram.exe exitTo agree to all current Sysinternal tools use the following batch file (copy it into a text file, name it 'eula.cmd' and double-click it)
reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\AccessChk" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\AccessEnum" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\AdExplorer" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\AdInsight" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\AdRestore" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Autologon" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Autoruns" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\BgInfo" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\BlueScreen" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\CacheSet" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ClockRes" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Contig" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Coreinfo" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Ctrl2cap" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\DebugView" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Desktops" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Disk Usage" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Disk2vhd" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\DiskExt" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Diskmon" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\DiskView" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\EFSDump" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Handle" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Hex2dec" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Junction" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\LDMDump" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ListDLLs" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\LiveKd" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\LoadOrder" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\LogonSessions" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\MoveFile" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\NTFSInfo" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PageDefrag" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PendMoves" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PipeList" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PortMon" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ProcDump" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Process Explorer" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Process Monitor" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ProcFeatures" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsExec" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsFile" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsGetSid" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsInfo" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsList" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsLoggedOn" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsLogList" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsPasswd" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsService" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsShutdown" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsSuspend" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsTools" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\RAMMap" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\RegDelNull" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\RegJump" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\RootkitRevealer" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\SDelete" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ShareEnum" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ShellRunas" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Sigcheck" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Streams" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Strings" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Sync" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\TCPView" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\VMMap" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\VolumeId" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\Whois" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\WinObj" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f reg.exe ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\ZoomIt" /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f