Debugging Filesystem access

Question

I'm looking for a Windows tool that is able to log every action (read & write) that were made to a specific path inside the local Filesystem in order to debug a program (find out why it is sometimes slow and sometimes not). In theory it could work like a virus scanner that is recognizing every file that any of the running programs do read or write and logs every thing that it sees.

Answer 1

Sounds like a job for Process Monitor, previously known as FileMon.

Answer 2

There is a tool called Process Monitor made by sysinternals http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx which will moniter the filesytem and registy, it will show which process is doing the operations. It should help you do what you need

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