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Which files are opened by a specific application?

Which files are opened by a specific application?

Is there a way to list all files that are currently opened by a specific process in Windows?

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Guest [Entry]

"You could try Sysinternals Process Explorer instead of Process Monitor. Process Monitor is design for watching what processes do as they do then. Process Explorer is more for seeing the current state of processes; it's Task Manager but with about 10x the functionality.

Sysinternals also have handle.exe which is a command line tool that tells you which files a process has open."
Guest [Entry]

Process Explorer from Sysinternals is actually pretty useless when it comes to dealing with file handles (as opposed to DLL's, etc.). Use Windows Resource Monitor, click on CPU tab. Next to Associated Handles type the name of the file and you will see who has it open.