Found 2 very cool tools for application developers on Windows. I have been using these for testing my apps on Windows XP. They’re quite cool, especially the ProcessExplorer one. ProcessExplorer shows almost everything about a running process – open registry entries, threads, file handles, sockets and their states etc. etc.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
The other tool is FileMon that displays the current file sytem activity in real-time. Apart from normal open files and directories, it also lets us track named pipes – so you can debug IPC between applications if they use pipes.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
