RIP to lite weight utilities to monitor your system.
FileMon and RegMon have now been retired from SysInternals.
As many of you remember, Mark Russinovitch is the Guru of the inside workings of Windows. He and his crew were able to author tools that were more authoritative than MicroSoft's. They were lite-weight and didn't interfere with the working of Windows itself. But then Mark was hired by Microsoft and his applications became big. So big that I would assume they could no longer monitor the system accurately.
Filemon and Regmon were rolled into ProcessMonitor a while ago so the older apps were redundant. But one of the reasons I liked them was that they were lite-weight. I haven't decided how I feel this time.
On one side there are the issues I've already touched on. On the other, I am running on a machine that I usually have 2 and sometimes 3 users logged onto FUS (Fast User Switching) and the main user is running several desktop applications. Right now I have Gimp, Audacity, OpenOffice, Textpad, keypass, and Firefox. Memory is no longer the limiting factor it used to be.
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a new version is available
SysInternals has posted a new version of several utilities.
Process Monitor (v2.7) which monitors the file system, registry and process activity in real-time
procdump (v1.5) which monitors for hung apps and heavy loads. It create a crash dump which can be used to debug.
VMMap (v2.3) analyzes virtual and physical memory use by processes.
Autoruns (v9.54) analyzes startup programs.
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