Process Monitor V2.91    Suggested by ClausValca - Updated by infimum on 19 May 2010 3MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2515) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (9) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Gluek: Perfect software for system monitoring, not only for geeks :) [2007-04-07 10:19]

 dot: Requires XP SP2! Darn! Doesn't run on XP SP1.

(alireza: extracted or "uncompressed" it's 2.32 MB) [2007-07-25 09:24]

 wagonman: Very competent C3P0 to help you in your faultfinding efforts. For example: What makes the CPU to run at near top speed when I believe the machine to be idle? Iip: By clicking one of the big icons. top right, you get a graph showing the last half minute´s activities when the cursor is left on the window. It also runs an icon in the quick tray showing angry colours when CPU is over-heating. Perfect companion to SysInternals´ "Autoruns". :-) !!

An essential must for lap-top users for help in conserving power.

Easy to learn, both programs.
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 noob: if someone were inclined to write a guide describing how to set this up to test for application portability, i am sure it would be appreciated by many :)

just not sure what to filter to see if files are created or if registry entries are made/deleted... [2008-05-16 04:25]

 Roland: If you're like me and don't like the bits it writes to the registry, you can try DTaskManager:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=944 [2008-05-23 07:22]

 linuxamp: Getting a warning "
This version of Dbghelp.dll configured does not support the Microsoft Symbol Server. Please download and install the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows to get a version that does."

Anyone else seeing this? [2008-10-06 17:35]

 linuxamp: It seems that this warning will continue to nag you upon launch unless you actually install the debugging tools which you may never otherwise use. Very irritating. [2008-10-06 18:39]

 a: Installs a driver and writes it's settings in the registry. Not portable by my standards. Quite a few times Windows XP has crashed/restarted after using new sysinternals software. Maybe it's an incompatibility with older software that has been used, I'll never know, What I do know is I will stick to the older releases. Process Explorer is indispensable. [2008-11-03 07:56]

 Fox Cole: On Vista Home Premium, it runs out of memory... can't allocate a memory block of 459893316; closing the error closes the program. This shouldn't be happening. [2009-03-28 13:34]

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