Process Monitor is a small, free utility to monitor the system processes that are accessed, started, and stopped. This could be useful in determining if you suspect a virus on your machine.

To install, simply launch the downloaded setup file and follow the onscreen instructions.

Note: Process Monitor requires WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to be installed. Users running Windows 95/98/NT must install it manually. Visit Microsoft's download page to download and install WMI.

Features:

Date/time of process and action taken (accessed, started, stopped)

Full path of the process and the process ID

Pause/resume the monitor

Filter out processes accessed, stopped, and/or started

Editable Normal Processes List (processes that are ignored)

Show/Hide Normal Processes

Set maximum number of processes to show

Copy contents of grid to clipboard

Save contents of grid to RTF file

Print contents of grid to a printer

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