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There are exhaustive filters that can be applied to capture only the relevant events.

Since the tools logs all the events, the interface can get flooded with millions of events very quickly. One of the common troubleshooting task this tools helps to investigate is the ‘Access Denied’ event on file or registry. Unlike Process Monitor which shows current state, Process Monitor logs can be used to see what file, registry, network and thread activities did the process attempt and whether it was successful or not. This monitors and logs all the processes in the systems. You will also find more references at this link. Choose Options->Replace Task Manager.ĭownload the tool from here. What more! If you became a fan of this tool, you can replace it for actual Task Manager! And revert back to Windows Task Manager when needed. If the lower pane is not visible, choose menu View->Lower Pane View->DLL or Handles.įind menu searching for specific text and the results You can click on the ‘Process’ column to see non-hierarchical, order list of all process names. When you launch, you will see all the process hierarchically listed as below.

Which process is locking file which you are trying to delete?.

What is the memory, CPU, disk and network usage of your application?.

What child process or parent process are launched with your application?.

What arguments, environment variable like PATH, is your application ‘seeing’?.

From where is your app loading a specific dependent files?.

Some common troubleshooting tasks where Process Explorer can be used are: This is super-charged Task Manager! It monitors all running process and displays files, registry keys and thread loaded by each of these. If you are debugging issues in your application, in the areas mentioned above, then I suggest you give these invaluable tools a try. Microsoft had acquired company behind these tools and made available for download at the link above. These free tools have existed in developers tool-belt for decades.

You can only go so far with the in-built Task Manager. On Windows platform, there are times when one has to troubleshoot problems related to file access, registry access, locks, CPU usage, memory usage etc.

Sysinternals Tools - Process Explorer and Process Monitor