Free process monitoring software for windows

Process Monitor 2.8 has come as an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry, and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon, and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, and simultaneous logging to a file. It is uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.

Major Features:

1. More data captured for operation input and output parameters
2. Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing data
3. Capture of thread stacks for each operation make it possible in many cases to identify the root cause of an operation
4. Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user and session ID
5. Configurable and movable columns for any event property
6. Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns
7. Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of log data
8. Process tree tool shows relationship of all processes referenced in a trace
9. Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance
10. Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information
11. Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn't fit in the column
12. Cancellable search
13. Boot time logging of all operations