Add ARM64 (Sysmon64a.exe) binary coverage to Windows install chapter#49
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Microsoft's Sysmon download now ships three command-line binaries, not two. The Windows
install chapter only documented
Sysmon.exeandSysmon64.exe, omitting the ARM64 buildSysmon64a.exe. This updates the chapter so ARM64 Windows hosts are covered.Changes
chapters/install_windows.md**Sysmon64a.exe** - ARM64 (64-bit ARM) version.bullet.Sysmon64a.exeis the native ARM64 build for Windows on ARM (Snapdragon PCs, Surface Pro X, ARM64 VMs), why the native binary is required (theSysmonDrvkernel driver must match the OS architecture and cannot load under x64 emulation), that the install flow/driver/service/event-log/config schema are otherwise identical to x64, and aSysmon64a.exe -i --accepteula -c <config>example.(default Sysmon or Sysmon64)→(default Sysmon, Sysmon64, or Sysmon64a).c:\Windows\Sysmon64a.exe.