Overview of Process Monitor

It is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry, and process/thread activity. It combines the features of legacies legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements.

There are powerful features such as comprehensive event properties such as session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more.

Moreover, its uniquely powerful features will make it a core utility in your system troubleshooting in the malware-hunting toolkit.

Features of Process Monitor

More data captured for operation input and output parameters

Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing capture of thread stacks for each operation to make it possible, in many cases, to identify the root cause of an operation

Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user, and session ID

Configurable and moveable columns for any event property

Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns

Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of logs. The process tree tool shows the relationship of all processes referenced in a trace

Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance

Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information

Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn't fit in the column

Technical Details and System Requirements

Supported OS: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7

RAM (Memory): 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)

Free Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more