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Of course, one could run it without a filter but that will make for potentially much larger trace files, which could impact free disk space and performance and would take longer to process in PowerShell. Indeed, web searches showed others looking for ways to dynamically create these configuration files, which contain the filters as well as included columns, but apparently without success. Searching around, I found that the format of a procmon configuration (.pmc) file didn’t appear to be documented anywhere and, being a binary format, could prove tricky, and time-consuming, to fully reverse engineer.

Run procmon for as long as needed to record the activity of interest.I recently had the need to automate the use of SysInternals’ Process Monitor such that no manual intervention is required to initiate the capture, with a filter, and then to process the results, in PowerShell of course.

Start the capture (File menu \ Capture Events).

Click Filter menu \ Drop Filtered Events so that procmon will not retain events that do not match the filters.

Enter any relevant filters, if the event is suspected to involve file / registry / or network events.

Browse to a folder for the file and enter an arbitrary file name, such as test.pml.

Start Procmon and immediately stop the capture (File menu \ Capture events), and clear any captured data (Edit menu \ Clear Display).

Long-duration monitoring (useful when the issue occurrence cannot be predicted):.

Save the log file in "process monitor" format.

Reproduce the issue as quickly as possible.It will immediately start capturing events Close as many other applications as possible, to reduce log entries during the execution of ProcMon.Short-duration monitoring (useful when the issue can be reproduced on-demand):.Prepare the system for monitoring (to reproduce the issue as quickly as possible).Copy the executable to the customer's machine and unzip it.