Check the Performance of Your PC With Windows Task Manager & Resource Monitor

Microsoft Windows Task Manager will gives us a great amount of information about applications and processes of those which are currently running on your computer, and also it will provide a real-time performance information on the processor, memory, and network usage. You can start Windows Task Manager by:

• Right-click any free area on the Windows taskbar and click Task Manager.
• Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then select Start Task Manager.
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESCAPE.

Microsoft Windows Task Manager will gives us a great amount of information about applications and processes of those which are currently running on your computer, and also it will provide a real-time performance information on the processor, memory, and network usage. You can start Windows Task Manager by:

• Right-click any free area on the Windows taskbar and click Task Manager.
• Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then select Start Task Manager.
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESCAPE.

The main tab in the Task Manager that will measures the performance is in the Performance tab

The Performance tab is divided into the following sections:

1. CPU Usage will indicate the percentage of processor cycles which are not in the idle state at that time. If the graph shows a high percentage continuously like not when there is no reasons or like a large amount of applications running, then your processor may be overloaded. If your computer has more than one processors, two or more graphs are shown.
2. CPU Usage History shows how much busy the processor has been recently, even though the graph only shows values since Task Manager was opened.
3. Memory shows the percentage of the physical memory that is being used.
4. Physical Memory Usage History shows how full the physical memory has been over time, even though it also shows values since Task Manager was opened.
5. Physical Memory (MB) indicates the total and available physical memory, and also the amount of memory in the system cache.
6. Kernel Memory (MB) indicates the memory used by the operating system. Paged kernel memory will be available only to system processes. Non-paged kernel memory can be used to run applications when necessary.
7. System gives totals for the number of handles, threads, and processes currently running. A process is a single executable program.  A handle represents a specific input/output (I/O) instance. A thread is an object within a process that runs program instructions. A process sometimes have multiple threads, each of which in turn may have multiple handles.

Monitor Your Computer Performance With Resource Monitor

On the Performance tab of Microsoft Windows Task Manager, you will also see a button named Resource Monitor. Click this button and enter your credentials when prompted by Windows Vista User Account Control(UAC) to open Resource Monitor

The Resource Monitor window is divided into several sections:

1. Resource Overview.
This section shows graphs which are identical to those shown in the Task Manager Performance tab.
2. CPU. This section lists processes which are usingCPU cycles, much like the Processes tab in Task Manager.
3. Disk. This section shows the real time at which processes are reading and writing to disk.
4. Network. This section shows in real time at which processes are sending and receiving on the network.
5. Memory. This section shows in the real time that the processes are committed to memory.
6. Learn More. This section features are  linked to various information in Windows Help about monitoring resources.