[olug] Windows file access trace program?

[Rob Townley]

Neal,

please put [OT] or something else that flags a message like this as off
topic.  Thanks.

You will also want regmon by sysinternals/M$ to monitor registry access.  By
the way, most all of the sysinternals stuff used to be OpenSource, but since
M$ purchased them, i can't find the source.  If somebody knows of a
sourceforge project or code.google project that houses the old SysInternals
source code, i would love to have a link.

More laptops and especially TabletPCs have accelerometers that detect sudden
movement and park the harddrive.  This may very well slow down your machine
and look like harddrive access.  A good reason to have a hybrid flash memory
& platter harddrive.


On 7/28/07, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd try Process Monitor by SysInternals. I'm not at my computer at the
> moment, and it requires Administrators group membership to run, so I
> don't know how effectively it works. But it does look to be what you
> need, and the guy behind SysInternals, Mark Russinovich(sp) is the guy
> who found the Sony Rootkit, so I think he knows what he's talking
> about. I'd give it a try.
>
> On 7/28/07, Neal R <neal at lists.rauhauser.net> wrote:
> >
> >   I've got a new laptop and I'm going to leave it XP :-(  Its a Thinkpad
> > and there is some utility on the machine that accesses the disk every
> > sixty seconds or so - this is even more annoying than the helpful
> > paperclip in office. There are all sorts of ways to learn what processes
> > are doing on Linux but I have no idea where to start on Windows - is
> > there an lsof equivalent?
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