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Gnawbie edited this page Mar 26, 2026 · 2 revisions

Tray Icon

Icon states

Icon Meaning
Green circle Monitor is running normally
Red circle Monitor is in the process of shutting down
Gone Monitor has fully stopped

Hover over the icon to see a tooltip: Process Monitor - Running or Process Monitor - Running (muted).


Right-click menu

Menu item Action
Process Monitor Title label (not clickable)
Open Log Folder Opens %USERPROFILE%\ProcessMonitorLogs\ in Explorer
Mute Notifications Toggles balloon crash notifications on/off. Crashes still log to file.
Stop Monitor Gracefully shuts down the monitor

Double-click

Double-clicking the tray icon opens the log folder in Explorer.


Mute Notifications

When muted:

  • The tooltip changes to Process Monitor - Running (muted)
  • A checkmark appears next to the menu item
  • Balloon tips are suppressed
  • Crashes are still written to errors_YYYY-MM-DD.log — mute only affects the on-screen popup

Click Mute Notifications again to unmute.

Mute persists across restarts

The mute setting is saved to settings.cfg in the log folder whenever you toggle it. The next time the monitor starts, it reads this file and restores your preference automatically — including the tray tooltip and menu checkmark.

File location: %USERPROFILE%\ProcessMonitorLogs\settings.cfg

To reset to unmuted without launching the monitor, delete settings.cfg or open it and set:

Muted=false

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