As part of the agreement, Winternals and Best Buy have entered into a three-year business relationship whereby Best Buy's Geek Squad and other computer service and repair employees will be licensed to use a variety of Winternals and Sysinternals software programs, including Winternals flagship, ERD Commander.

The software is a system repair and data recovery tool that is designed to boot a dead computer into a familiar Windows-like, point-and-click environment for rapid system recovery. It aims to help users to restore deleted data, reset passwords, copy files to and from unbootable systems, edit the registry, and access restore points on a dead Windows computer. Sysinternals is a Web site dedicated to advanced utilities, technical information, and source code for Windows that is sponsored by Winternals.
 
Winternals' lawyer, David Weaver, filed motions officially announcing the settlement agreement, and asking US District Judge, Sam Sparks, to dismiss the lawsuit.
 
"The financial terms of the agreement are confidential," says Weaver. Winternals is pleased that the copyright dispute is resolved and both companies are thrilled to have reached this long-term business relationship."