Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.
It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more.
Process Monitor - Free - an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. This uniquely powerful utility will even show you who owns each process. Process Explorer - Free - Find out what files, registry keys and other objects processes have open, which DLLs they have loaded, and more. Autoruns also shows you the full list of Registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-start settings. Right Click the start button - Command Prompt (Admin) OR Windows PowerShell (Admin) - at the prompt type inĪutoruns - Free - See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login. Try the Clean Boot method to see if a startup program is involved - if so it is a process of elimination : If using an SSD or hybrid hard drive be sure it has the latest firmware. I would do a Performance check for the entire system. How slow from power off? How slow from restart? Hi, I am Rob, a volunteer and a 10 time and dual award MVP specializing in Windows troubleshooting and Bluescreen analysis.