| sysinternals suite https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sys... A collection of tools that started outside Microsoft and are now very much embraced. Process Monitor does just that, AutoStart shows all the cruft that attaches at startup, to menus, to browsers, etc. FileMonitor .. live and logged file activity, etc. One for your windows machine at home: PortMaster - it's an "easy use" tiered (free -> paid VPN like additions) variation in the sysInternals TCPView family - monitoring all network connections, tying them back to a process and making accept|deny trivial. PortMaster requires installion - sysInternals mostly don't, but do report better with admin privileges. BulkRenameTool is crazy effective if ever you need to organise file names, in a directory, multiple directories, entire subtrees, with or without regular expressions, can add | remove patterns | timestamps, etc. https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ https://ss64.com/nt/ :: An A-Z Index of Windows CMD commands. https://ss64.com/ps/ :: An A-Z Index of Windows PowerShell commands ROBOCOPY:: https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html - Windows native Robust File and Folder Copy, in a windows production pipeline this is the tool that can be autostarted to monitor folders and move | copy | backup data | scripts .. useful to move staged data evolution from one machine|location to another. |