Monitor and display file system activity

Filemon is a nice, free software only available for Windows, that belongs to the category Software utilities with subcategory Analysis & Optimization (more specifically System Monitoring) and has been published by Microsoft.

More about Filemon

Since the software has been added to our selection of software and apps in 2006, it has managed to reach 6,577 downloads, and last week it achieved 14 downloads.The program version is 7.04 and it has been updated on 11/13/2006. It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and previous versions, and it is available in English.About the download, Filemon is a not that heavy software that will not require as much free space than many programs in the category Software utilities. It’s a very popular program in United States, Germany, and Poland.

FileMon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations.

Filemon’s timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome. FileMon is so easy to use that you’ll be an expert within minutes. It begins monitoring when you start it, and its output window can be saved to a file for off-line viewing. It has full search capability, and if you find that you’re getting information overload, simply set up one or more filters.