Various task manager applications have some overview of memory, but until now they haven't provided as detailed and useful a dissection of Windows memory usage as the RAMMap utility. One of these factors, in my opinion, is the lack of a good tool for allowing the user to see all memory allocation at a glance, topically.

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It would also be nice if it did not require administrative privileges. Another requirement which I didn't really state is that speed is fairly important I was planning on doing this for things like compiling a C++-file, and pulling up a full GUI which generates a 20 MB logfile will have prohibitive overhead. I'm really only interested in what files are opened, and if they are opened for read/write or just read. If I narrow down my requirements even further, it is probably enough to be able to monitor calls to CreateFile(). I'm aware of Process Monitor, but I would like to receive the data in a form which I can import into another program for further analysis. I want to do this programmatically from another process. I'm primarily interested in running a process and figuring out which files it has read and written. On Linux I can probably get away using strace with suitable parameters, but how can I do this on Windows? I would like to be able to monitor certain system calls made by a process, primarily file I/O calls.

Sysinternals file monitor