Thus, any object or event in ProcMon can be added to the filters, so that the minimum set of events that you need to analyze access to a file or registry are displayed in front of you. Click in the ProcMon window on the line with the WriteFile operation type, and add this event to the Include filter.

If you want ProcMon to save only the events that match your filters and drop all the others, enable the option Filter > Drop Filtered Events.įor example, you want to monitor only write events to a file. To do this, select the File > Backing Files > Use File named, and specify the file name. You can configure ProcMon to store events not in virtual memory but in a file on disk. If ProcMon has been running for a long time, it may take up all the available RAM. Once youve instantiated the object, you can then provide various 'parameters' to the watcher by assigning values to different object properties. This class is in the System.IO namespace and can be created with the New-Object cmdlet. Regardless of the filters configured, it stores all events in RAM (even if they are not displayed in the window). To monitor a folder for new files in Windows with PowerShell, we can use a. Running Process Monitor can negatively affect the performance of your computer. Now, if any process running on Windows tries to read or write to a tracking file or registry key, you will see this event in Process Monitor. In this way, exclude any other trusted processes that are accessing your file or registry key. It means that the ProcMon log won’t display any activity from this process. This process will be added to the ProcMon filter with the Exclude value. To exclude the events of this process from the ProcMon log, right-click on the process name msmpeng.exe and select Exclude “….”. This is the core process of the antimalware detection engine in Windows Defender. The list of events contains the system process msmpeng.exe (Antimalware Service Executable).

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