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#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR HOW TO#
#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR INSTALL#
#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR ZIP FILE#
#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR DRIVERS#

The moment you run procmon, it begins capturing many different kinds of Windows events. You’ll then see a folder like any ol’ network share containing all of the Sysinternals files including procmon. To do this, open up File Explorer and paste in \\ \tools. If you’d rather not (or can’t) download an EXE, you can also use the Sysinternals Live folder. There is a way around this which will be touched on later in this Guide. Procmon only runs with elevated permissions so you’ll be prompted to accept this if you have UAC enabled when you run it. Now run procmon by invoking the ~\ProcessMonitor\procmon.exe file. Procmon64a.exe – The alpha 64 procmon binary.Procmon64.exe – The 圆4 procmon binary.Procmon.exe – The main EXE that will launch the correct procmon instance (x86 or 圆4).procmon.chm – The help file which contains all of the provided documentation.Eula.txt – The license agreement you’ll have to accept before running procmon.Inside of the ~\ProcessMonitor folder, you will see five files:

This code snippet will create a folder at ~\ProcessMonitor with all of the files needed.Įxpand-Archive -Path '~\ProcessMonitor.zip' -Destination ProcessMonitor Below is a PowerShell code snippet if you’ve saved it to your home folder.

#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR ZIP FILE#

Once you’ve got it downloaded, extract the ZIP file with your favorite tool. You can get it by downloading the ZIP file. Procmon doesn’t need to be installed it’s a single executable. You can get it two different ways via the traditional download method or what Windows Sysinternals calls Sysinternals live. To get started, you’re going to need procmon running on your Windows machine. The Guide will use v3.6 of procmon throughout on a Windows 10 Build 1909 圆4 machine.

#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR INSTALL#

That’s it! You’ll download and install procmon in the following sections.

A Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 or higher machine (x86 or 圆4).

This Ultimate Guide will apply to nearly all Windows systems but, for the sake of completeness (and to prevent you from attempting to run procmon on a Windows 3.1 computer), you’ll need the following:

Finding the Process Accessing an IP Address.

Troubleshooting Applications that Require Admin Rights.

Changing Procmon’s Altitude (Capturing Lower-Level Events).

Setting up Long-Running Procmon Captures.

Exporting and Opening Events to/from Log Files.

Highlighting Events and Converting to Filters.

Importing and Exporting Procmon Configurations.

This makes Process Monitor log the next boot process of the operating system. Select the Options menu at the top and the Enable Boot Logging option in that menu.

#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR DRIVERS#

The program can however be used - with some expertise - to locate problematic drivers that slow down the boot process. It will log everything which usually results in boot logs that are larger than 100 Megabytes. Process Monitor comes with an option to log the Windows boot process. Some solid, like reducing the number of installed fonts or programs that run on startup, while others, like clearing the Windows prefetch folder, will have the opposite effect.

#HOW TO RUN PROCESS MONITOR HOW TO#

Many tips exist on how to reduce the boot speed of the operating system. The mysterious Microsoft Bootvis, which was later retracted by Microsoft, or Boot Timer, a program that can only measure the boot speed, are just two programs to measure the boot speed. There are not a lot of tools available for the Windows operating system that measure and optimize the Windows boot process.