Comment Re:Sysinternals' RegMon and FileMon (Score 1) 86
I would definitely agree with this. SysInternals has some of the best freeware and commercial apps out there for monitoring your system.
Often helps when seeing what installers/uninstallers are doing, looks for odd behavior from say trojans, and checking to see what applications may be accessing files, regkeys, ports, etc.
Just remember to apply a filter though or you will probably be flooded with information :) It is easy to just add a filter for the executable files that you want to monitor.