December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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15.1 Monitoring File Access in Your System with Filemon
File access on any system normally goes smoothly, but it’s hard to track down exactly where problems lie on the rare occasions when you run into difficulties. Installations can fail because of incorrect access permissions, directories can fill up with temporary files created by unknown applications, and exceptions can get thrown with vague, unhelpful errors. Few tools exist to help you sort out which program is hitting which file at what point in time, so problems like these often lead to painful debugging sessions. Thankfully, the folks at Sysinternals created Filemon to help out in such circumstances. (You’ll notice four separate tools from Sysinternals in this chapter—these folks are good!)
Tip
Big changes occurred at Sysinternals right as this book was heading to print: Microsoft has acquired Sysinternals and its brilliant staff. The future of the tools appears to be bright, however. Mark Russinovich, owner of Sysinternals, has blogged that Microsoft will continue to make these tools available for free. See Mark’s blog at http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/default.aspx for future updates.
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Tool | Filemon |
Version covered | 7.02 |
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Summary | Helps you sort out file-access issues |
License type | Freeware; can’t ... |
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