Options

A number of settings in the Options menu modify Process Monitor's behavior.

Enable Advanced Output

This option controls built-in filtering of advanced operations and is described further in Filtering and Highlighting.

Font

This option opens a font selection dialog where you can chose the font Process Monitor uses for its display.

Highlight Colors

Chose this entry to open a dialog to pick the text and background colors Process Monitor uses for entries that match the configured highlight filters.

Configure Symbols

Process Monitor can use symbol information, if available, to show functions referenced on event stacks. You can find information on configuring symbols on the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows web page.

History Depth

Process Monitor watches committed memory usage and turns itself off when virtual memory runs low, but the History Depth dialog let's you limit the number of entries it keeps so that you can leave Process Monitor running for long periods and ensure that it always keeps the most recent events.