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In today’s edition of Geek School we’re going to teach you how to use Process Monitor to actually accomplish troubleshooting and figuring out registry hacks that you would not know about otherwise.

Here are some easy steps for starting, stopping, and saving a Procmon capture. Lesson 5: Using Process Monitor to Troubleshoot and Find Registry Hacks ProcMon is an indispensable tool that zillions of people have used. Today in this edition of Geek School we’re going to teach you about how the Process Monitor utility allows you to peek under the hood and see what your favorite applications are really doing behind the scenes - what files they are accessing, the registry keys they use, and more. Understanding how Process Explorer’s dialogs and options work is all fine and good, but what about using it for some actual troubleshooting or to diagnose a problem? Today’s Geek School lesson will try and help you learn how to do just that. Lesson 3: Using Process Explorer to Troubleshoot and Diagnose But how well do you really know this utility?

#Sysinternals process monitor guide series#
This lesson in our Geek School series covers Process Explorer, perhaps the most used and useful application in the SysInternals toolkit. Process Monitor (procmon) is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. Not that we are questioning your geek skills. This How-To Geek School series will teach you how to use SysInternals tools like a pro, so your geek cred will never be in question. Lesson 1: What Are the SysInternals Tools and How Do You Use Them? Join us as we take a deep dive into SysInternals. NET Agent relies on a number of environment variables.This How-To Geek School series will teach you how to Use SysInternals Tools Like a Pro, and even the most hard-core geeks will probably learn something new. The “Process Start” operation will show us the environment variables of the process when it started. Be sure to stop recording once you have some data to avoid too much noise. You should have a big long list of every action your process took after recording. Step 3: Filter your results to identify the problem:

In my case, this meant an IISRESET followed by hitting the site once in my browser to “wake up” the app in IIS. With the filter in place, click the spyglass icon again to start recording and restart you app. I recommend starting with “Process Name” because in our case we normally know what process we are interested in: The first dropdown is the column to filter on, then the verb, then the filter term. I’ve highlighted the clear (left) and filter (right) icons. Next, clear the results to remove noise and set a filter to the process you want to monitor. Startup_stop_recording.PNG 1199×422 52.7 KB Step 2: Clear results and set a starting filter: You can use the little spyglass icon to stop/start recording in the top left which I highlighted: This can quickly cause it to become unresponsive so IMMEDIATELY after starting it, stop recording. Every action of every process on the system. My biggest complaint is that when you first start procmon it starts recording the entire system. Step 1: Starting procmon for the first time A console app would need to be restarted itself. Because this is hosted in IIS I am doing multiple IISRESETs to capture the startup of the application which is when it attempts to load New Relic. NET Core process which is often simply “dotnet.exe” but you may also be interested in the app pool process, “w3wp.exe”, or your custom built. NET Core you often get no errors or logs to start your troubleshooting so procmon is invaluable. NET Core Agent to demonstrate how to use this tool to figure out why it is not reporting. I’ve created a couple different real world problems with the.
#Sysinternals process monitor guide .exe#
exe that comes with a readme in a zipfile. The best part? There is no install! It is a standalone. It allows you to inspect processes in real time to see exactly what they are doing which can be very valuable in the world of Microsoft errors like “The data is the error”. Process Monitor, or procmon, is a powerful Windows tool that for some reason still isn’t included in Windows.
