Monday, October 1, 2018

Sysinternals Process Monitor

Process Monitor is a Windows utility from Sysinternals.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

By default, the application is logging for Registry, File, Network, and Process.

image

Control + E toggles capture, and Control + X clears the logs.

image

A quick method to create a filter is the right-click on the name within one of the columns.

image

image

One common use of Process Monitor is to determine the Registry location of a parameter.  The filter parameter would be RegSetValue.

image

In this example, below is the Registry key to enable DEP.

image

To launch the Registry Editor with the path in question, right-click the entry and use the Jump To option.

image

image

Another option is to click on the Target icon and drag on the parameter in question.

image

Applications can be filtered based on process name.

image

Certain items are filtered by default.  To see all data, use the Filter –> Enabled Advanced Output option.

image

The Process Tree view can be accessed using Control Key + T.

image

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.