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Process Monitor

Monitor file system, Registry, process, thread and DLL activity in real-time.

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    2023-10-03

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Process Monitor, powerful tool to troubleshoot applications and Windows.

Process Monitor: Basic Operation

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  • DLLs in Rust🦀
    To be sure that our exe is actually looking for the DLL, fire up the SysInternals' Process Monitor. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
  • can't get PTAT to run on RPL-U i7-1365URE eval board
    Don't know what PTAT stands for, but whenever I have issues with windows software running properly I pull out Process Monitor to log what that program was doing at the time of the error message. Sometimes there is a clue such as not being able to find a particular file, or registry key, or something else crashing etc. Source: 9 months ago
  • Software developer looking to experiment with SCCM
    This might be a bit advanced but if it was me I would probably get frustrated and use SysInternals specifically procmon Https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon. Source: 9 months ago
  • Browsers that are resource efficient?
    Used Procmon, Diskmon with a mix of CrystalDiskinfo in my testings to kinda figure out the browsers that did a lot of writing and reading to my old SSD in a ancient laptop I have. You can pretty much get estimates of the ones that use too much Disk resources. Source: 9 months ago
  • Windows Registry
    You can use something like Process Monitor (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon) to see what processes are interacting with which registry keys. Source: 9 months ago
  • doomsday client is too good to be true !!!
    If you still don't trust, you can use a virtual machine to run or sandbox. Or use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon for cheking what files are opened. Source: 10 months ago
  • “fractureiser” malware in many popular Minecraft mods and modpacks
    Guess we have to run promontory [0] at all times to see what's going on [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
  • Sophos
    If you look at what is going on with that process in Process Monitor (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon) from a file event persective, do you see it constantly renaming log files, e.g.: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Splashtop\Splashtop Remote\Server\log\agent_log.txt.xxx"? Source: 10 months ago
  • Vault Still Crashing in PC Client
    I was messing around with this a bit as a friend of mine always crashed on floors 2 and 4. I never crashed in vault until today when I turned on Process Monitor. I crashed immediately on floors 2 and 4, I kept it on for another vault and same thing, crashed on 2 and 4. Source: 10 months ago
  • Is Obsidian Going to kill my SSD - some calculations
    I decided to fire up Process Monitor and while typing in Obsidian a WriteFile for the document I was working on was logged every ~2 words typed. Source: 11 months ago
  • Empress's Resident Evil 4 Remake doesn't save game
    I have three files, data000.bin, data00-1.bin and data001Slot.bin, I used procmon and I can see the game reads all three files when it launches, but it's of no help. Source: 11 months ago
  • Do i Have Crypto Miner?after installing gta 4 from ocean of games my cpu usage goes from 100 to 8 and dedicated and integrated gpu usage spikes too, is this normal? also i scanned my pc with Malwarebytes bitdefender and nothing shows up ( im new to these stuff )
    Well GTA 4 is horribly optimized and RDR2 is quite a new game so it'd make sense why a laptop GPU might be so utilised. If the GPU isn't constantly peaking and you really completely reinstalled windows, then I wouldn't worry, it's probably just the computer. Check start-up and scheduled tasks with ProcessMonitor and Autoruns. If you don't find anything suspicious and the issue persists/ is very annoying then I'd... Source: 11 months ago
  • Getting rid of a malicious script that keeps opening Powershell.
    Take a look with process monitor https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon. Source: 11 months ago
  • Red Canary Mac Monitor, a new, free Mac Threat Analysis Tool
    Red Canary Mac Monitor is Mac Monitor is Red Canary’s newly available tool for collection and dynamic system analysis on macOS endpoints. You can leverage Apple’s latest APIs to collect and present relevant security events. Mac Monitor is practically the macOS version of the Microsoft Sysinternals tool Procmon. Source: 11 months ago
  • Application fails to load unless admin
    Just load a process monitoring tool (like Sysinternals Process Monitor: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon). You can see what the app is accessing and what is getting denied. Change the permissions on this objects (registry key, file, whatever) so you can limit the surface area that is vulnerable. Source: 11 months ago
  • we really need a file explorer with Full mica effect like this
    By Process Monitor I meant a tool by that name. It's quite a handful to get grips with using it, since there are ridiculous amounts of things you'll see but through filtering the list you can eventually find out small things. Source: 11 months ago
  • What is this batch file suddenly popping in my desktop, even after deleting it
    Nothing to worry I suppose. Use procmon tool. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon. Source: 12 months ago
  • Fibratus 1.10.0 - a modern Windows kernel tracing and threat detection engine built in Go
    So if I interpret this correctly it is a very process monitor https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon like tool? Perhaps it would pay to compare it to procmon and mention where your tool is more suited to, considering procmon is a decently well known windows tool. Source: 12 months ago
  • Mysterious Drive Mapping as System User - Survives Everything
    I’d start with Autoruns and if that didn’t find it dig in with Process Monitor. Source: 12 months ago
  • New player having issues with running the RSI Launcher
    Maybe watch with Process Monitor while you run the launcher and see if any of these calls are failing and if any more information about why is exposed? Some interpretation will be needed of course since a lot of failure conditions might appear that are just normal app behavior (i.e. Check to see if a path exists, if this fails, THEN create it, etc). Source: about 1 year ago
  • Script works if I walk through it (debug, VSCode), but if I just 'run' it without any breakpoints or interrupts, it crashes silently with no errors
    If your program abruptly terminates with an abnormal closing state, there's a good chance the kernel killed it. There could be all sorts of reasons - you ran out of memory, you committed an access violation, you were terminated by another process like an oomkiller or a virus protection, etc. Tracing your execution by emitting some output is a perfectly reasonable place to start, and there are, frankly, about a... Source: about 1 year ago

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