sysinternals tools hanging due to license

You probably have come across (either in this blog or on other sites), various tools from sysinternals (psexec, psinfo, pskill, etc...).

While these are great tools, for the sysadmin, especially when it comes to automating and scripting, you may have noticed that they been absorbed my microsoft.  On it's own, being acquired by microsoft isn't necessarily a bad thing, however microsoft does now insist that you agree to a license the first time you use a sysinternals tool as a particular user on a particular machine.  This can be very problematic when running scripts on remote machines via psexec (the sysinternals tool will hang and not give you any indication that it's because you need to agree to a license).

One way to get around this is to put in registry keys onto the remote computer that you already accepted the eula,
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

many thinks to http://peter.hahndorf.eu/blog/post/2010/03/07/WorkAroundSysinternalsLicensePopups  for the information, please go there for a more complete listing of registry entries for each of the sysinternals tools.