This is a guest post by Ajith K Punnoose from Simple Informations. You might have noticed that Saman hasn’t been posting too often lately, he is concentrating in his studies. So I got this wonderful opportunity to do a guest post here. Hope you all find this useful.
Sysinternals, previously an independent site, has got a lot of utilities to fine-tune your Windows box. Sysinternals is now a part of Microsoft.
File Monitor from Sysinternals is a free disk read write monitoring utility. It is an out of the box program that needs no installation. It can be downloaded from the File Monitor page at Sysinternals and is a zip archive of only 279Kb. File Monitor has got a simple and clutter free interface which shows the current disk activity. The columns in the main Window shows : Time, Process that is doing the operation, Request by the process, File being accessed and Other information.
You can set File Monitor to monitor selected drives or all the drives. The Details History can be adjusted from 1 to infinite number.You can also search in the history, apply Filters and Save the Logs. The Memory usage is 5.3Mb + 43Mb of virtual memory.
It is a must have for System administrators and power users. File Monitor was created by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Download FileMonitor zip file – 279Kb.
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