Windows – Process Monitor fails to load

32-bitprocess-monitorwindows 7

I am trying to load Process Monitor (Procmon.exe) from Sysinternals, and I get the following error on startup.

Unable to load Process Monitor device driver

In the Event Viewer, I get the following.

Driver PROCMON11.SYS has been blocked from loading.

What is blocking it from loading?

Background information: I have no anti-virus or malware checker software installed, other than Windows Defender (which I think is part of Windows 7).

Best Answer

It seems that most people on the web who had this problem, solved it by installing a newer version of procmon, or an older version if their's was the latest.