[TheSam]

Hi everyone!

Does anyone of you know of a program with which I could see what files a certain program is using while it's running?
I want to clean up the computer from unused DLLs

Thanks,
Sam

[Christianb]

Hi Alec and TheSam,
At the same website you can find FileMon which sounds more like what you're looking for.
Happy Monitoring,
Christian Blackburn

[Xiven]

Here's a great little program with a nice GUI that lets you see what resources (eg. dlls) are being used by a program, or lets you see what programs are using a particular dll: http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/modules.zip

[CUViper]

Dependancy Walker will analyze any executable and tell you what dll's the program needs. The program in question does not need to be running - this just looks at the app itself to determine the dependencies (hence the name).

[Christianb]

Hi Alec,
Actually the reason I posted FileMon was because I read his post's message forgetting what the title of his post was was .

Hey CuViper,
That application looks great do you happen know how it stacks up to Depends a tool included with Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition? Depenecy walker looks almost identical to Microsoft's retail solution. However, there's a pretty good chance that it was improved upon and so I was curious to find out if you knew of any such features that Dep Walker has that Depends (sounds like that diaper for adults doesn't it :D) doesn't.

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn

[Christianb]

Hi Alec,
Wow Alec PESX doesn't sound pesky at all . That sounds excellent. They used to have that functionality built into Windows 98. I still can't figure out why the dropped it. It was cool, I can't remember the extension though (I can find out if you really want to know), but it would record how many times a program was executed and which system files it called.
-Christian

[Xiven]

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P.S.=> Xiven, is this freeware too? apk

Well it comes as part of Seagate Crystal Reports which is far from free, but the program itself is freely available to download from their website with no mention of any license restrictions.

[CUViper]

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do you happen know how it stacks up to Depends a tool included with Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition? Depenecy walker looks almost identical to Microsoft's retail solution.

As far as I know, they are one and the same. I had actually pulled that link at one time from the MSDN site. Of course, the one on the website is the newest version, so there are bound to be a few improvements...

[TheSam]

Thank you all for the help and URLs, I'll check them out. At least one of them should be what I'm looking for

[Christianb]