Here's just guessing: - Most of the tools by Sysinternals, eg. ProcessExplorer, ProcessMonitor - Tools by Nirsoft, eg. TCPView, GDIView, HeapMemView etc. - M

Here's just guessing: - Most of the tools by Sysinternals, eg. ProcessExplorer, ProcessMonitor - Tools by Nirsoft, eg. TCPView, GDIView, HeapMemView etc. - Microsoft's own tools eg. WinDbg, System Profiler, all the snap-ins for MMC - Tools for looking at system components related to COM/OLE That's just guessing, but I find I respect Windows more and more the more I learn about it. I recommend reading the Windows Internals books because it shows the amount of work that has gone into things that are overlooked often eg. NTFS (which is miles better than Apple's new APFS, which seems to get a lot of praise for unknown reasons). You can find out a lot of what is happening under the hood with Sysinternal's tools, including IPC which would be far harder to trace under Linux I believe.