Logging Program Activity
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Thinstall can also act as a powerful developer tool allowing you to log a wide range of activity occurring inside any EXE or DLL.

Some of the Activities that Thinstall will report about a program:

· Files read, written, created, or opened by the program
· Directories that are opened, or enumerated by the program
· Registry Keys created, read, written, or accessed by the program
· COM / ActiveX control creation
o COM Activity, including monitoring calls to instances of IUnknown, IClassFactory, IClassFactory2, Idispatch, IExternalConnection, IMarshal, and more.
· DLLs loaded by the program
· Function calls to operating system
· DLL or EXE Resource access
· Thread creation and destruction
· DllMain entry calls for loaded/unloaded DLLs and threads created
· External programs executed by your program, Thinstall can continue tracing the external program to a separate log file
· Process shutdown procedures (DLL frees, memory deallocations, etc)
· Virtual Memory allocation / frees
· Memory mapped file creation / destruction

Click here for more information about Logging your program's Activity.