Track software operations (file access/saves) on hard drive?

Question

Do you know of any programs which can track what a specific exe does on my hard drive? (ie. what files it creates/edits...)

ps: I use windows 7

Answer 1

You mentioned "exe" so I assume you are on Windows. Try Process Monitor.

(On Linux, strace and/or ltrace have similar abilities.)

Answer 2

If this is a windows machine, I highly recommend using process explorer directly from Microsoft (process explorer - microsoft.com). This will give you all the information on any process running on the computer, as for all dll files and what not touched or opened by that same process.

By the way guys, I sent him to the Microsoft page where all the sys-internals tools are all located... grawity...

Have fun!