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I've got third party Winamp plug-in in windows, that should be able to load its datafile.

The datafile is located in same folder as the plug-in, but can not be found. My idea is that plug-in searches in some pre-defined path. So I need somehow to find out what file read attempt is done to place file in the appropriate place.

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Best way to do this is to use Process Monitor from Sysinternals suite (http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals/bb896645)

Set up filters to watch only the examined program and look for 'CreateFile' operations, which are also read attempts.