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    Posted: 16 September 2005 at 4:01pm
Originally posted by Mark

Process Monitor is in under development...


and thats the official word just in from the national department of cryptic quotes. ;p
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Originally posted by StuWhitby

What you're asking for is something to really beef up monitoring on
your system. Process Explorer isn't designed to do stuff like
this at the moment, and logging historical data isn't really in its
remit.


I suppose but not really, we got monitoring systems already. And Process Explorer is already logging historical data anyway. Needs a checkbox allow "old tasks" to not dissappear - not sure how much coding is involved though.

I mean in general as well its a nice feature. Haven't you ever had some task flash up briefly and dissappear? Rather discomforting not knowing what it was.
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Process Monitor is in under development...
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What you're asking for is something to really beef up monitoring on your system.  Process Explorer isn't designed to do stuff like this at the moment, and logging historical data isn't really in its remit. 

Mark, I've seen a few requests of this type recently.  Could it be time for Winternals to produce "Process Explorer Pro"?
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Originally posted by redhawk

You could use tokenmon and watch for "create process" "exit process" or
filemon with *.exe filtering but probably not as reliable since this
only shows files access not specifically program that have run.


True but thats not going to tell you what the CPU usage was.. getting a list of previous processes is not a problem.
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You could use tokenmon and watch for "create process" "exit process" or filemon with *.exe filtering but probably not as reliable since this only shows files access not specifically program that have run.

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What would really be cool is if PE could keep "killed" or previous processes in the process list so that historical CPU usage can be monitored.

There is currently no tool that can do this that I am aware of.

Its very usefull in a server environment where you have CGI apps runnning that start using 100% CPU. By the time you have logged in the CPU is back to normal and you don't know which process was the culprit. (since its CGI its no longer running).
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