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How to know which file is being executed?

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by sui-sum.fok

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Hello expert,

I forget the name of the free software that it can tell which files are currently running in windows.

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by tom friedriks

Usually its also useful to check what they actually do on the system. Which objects are accessed by a started process? That can be done with another tools from Microsoft Windows Internals, called [url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Filemon.mspx]FileMon[/url] and [url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Regmon.mspx]RegMon[/url]. I use them to troubleshoot software freeze and crashes. Regmon is also usefull to check why application stopped from starting after you did some update of another software. Sometimes update changes registry key what's was used by this stopped application too, and regmon reveals that stopped application queries registry for non-existing key parameter. I also recommend you to look at [url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/PsList.mspx]PsList[/url] wich allows to view thread details.

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