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#Process monitor how to
#Process monitor driver

(I have chosen 10 seconds to make the example more demonstrative).

Thus, in the list of processes you will have only the processes that spend more that 10 seconds to perform some operations.

Select Duration as the parameter of the filter, more than as the filter condition and specify the value 10.

Create a new filter in the Filter menu.

In ProcMon window, click the header of the table, then click Select Columns and enable the display of the Duration column.

pml, Bootlog-1.pml and Bootlog-2.pml with the total size 700 MB appeared in the target directory.

Select the directory you want to save the file to and wait till it is saved.

If you don’t stop Process Monitor, the temporary log file %windir%\procmon.pmb will eventually take up all free space on the system drive.

In Process Monitor window, accept the offer to save the collected data to a file.

After that the boot logging mode is disabled

procmon23.sys will log all events until a user starts Process Monitor.

Restart your computer and wait till your desktop appears.

#Process monitor driver

In this mode, procmon driver will capture the state of all processes every second

In the next window, select Generate thread profiling events -> Every second.Select Enable Boot Logging in the Options menu.Run procmon.exe with the administrator privileges.Download and unpack the archive containing Process Monitor ( ).This service loads the boot mode driver procmon23.sys that starts after Winload.exe is launched and logs the activity of all processes run during system boot and user logon. To diagnose the boot stage, Process Monitor creates a separate service in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services section of the registry. One of the little-known Process Monitor features is the opportunity to enable monitoring of processes started during Windows startup. Process Monitor allows monitoring the activities of running processes, access to the file system and the registry in real time.

#Process monitor how to

In this article we’ll show how to easily and quickly detect, which apps, services and drivers work slow during the system start, thus increasing the total boot time.Ĭertainly, all Windows system administrators should be familiar with Process Monitor from from the Sysinternals system utilities kit. But their use can cause some troubles, especially, for a beginning system administrator. To diagnose the reasons of slow Windows boot, there is a number of quite powerful tools and techniques of log analysis that allow performing the detailed debugging of all steps of system boot and start of services (xperf/xbootmgr from Windows Performance Toolkit / Analyzer).