Using the Performance Monitor

The Performance Monitor provides you with real-time reports on how various system settings and components are performing. You load it by opening Control Panel, opening the Administrative Tools, and then opening Performance Monitor. In the Performance Monitor window, open the Monitoring Tools branch and click Performance Monitor.

Performance Monitor displays real-time data using performance counters, which are measurements of system activity or the current system state. For each counter, Performance Monitor displays a graph of recent values over a time space (the default time space is 100 seconds) as well as statistics such as the average, maximum, and minimum values over that span.

By default, Performance Monitor ...

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