![]() ![]() If you want to add more counters and graphs, you simply need to click on the green (+) icon located at the top of the graph. When you click on it, the performance graph will then show on the main panel as shown below. To do this, you need to click on the “Monitoring Tools” folder and after doing so, it will reveal the “Performance Monitor” tool contained in it. In order to find out how your system components and processes are using your computer’s system resource and CPU. ![]() The shortcut that leads to the “Performance Monitor” tool should be listed first under the “Programs” search results category as shown below.Īfter clicking on it, the Performance Monitor Window will open and it should look like the screenshot below.Īs I pointed out earlier, the tool is capable of monitoring performance and CPU Time of certain programs and processes running on your machine. To do this, just follow the steps below.įirst, you would need to click on the “Start” button to open the Start Menu then type the words “performance monitor” on the search box as shown on the screenshot below.Īfter typing the words, just wait until the search results displays on top of the search box. Once the Administrative Tools Window opens, look for the “Performance Monitor” shortcut from the list then just click on it to launch the tool.Īccessing the Tool Using the Start Menu Search BoxĪnother way of accessing the Performance Monitor Tool which also one of the easiest is by using the search feature on the Start Menu. ![]() On the main “Control Panel” Window, click on “System and Security” then on the Window that follows, click “Administrative Tools”. Next, on the Start Menu, click on the “Control Panel” link located at the right side. To do it, you first need to click on the “Start” button or the “Windows Orb” which can be found at the bottom-left corner of your computer screen (extreme-left end of the task bar). This is the traditional way of accessing the tool and is mostly used by novice users. Accessing Performance Monitor from the Control Panel The first one is probably the most preferred way of accessing any Windows system utilities. You can use different ways of accessing this tool on your Windows 7 machine but for this tutorial, I will be showing you two ways. Take note that this tool is also available on Windows Vista and Windows 8 but on Windows 8, it is best launched typing the “PerfMon.exe” on the Start Screen search box. With the details that this tool provides, you can easily think and search for alternatives that would somehow substitute programs that are not handled smoothly by your computer.īut before going to the details, I’ll first show you how to access this tool on your Windows 7 computer. For instance, if you are fond of listening to music while doing some tasks on your machine using Microsoft Office applications then you can check which media player best performs with the open apps without taking or eating up too much system resource. With this tool, you can see what programs best fits your CPU capacity. This tool is called Performance Monitor or also known as PerfMon.exe on Windows 8. Thankfully, Windows has a very efficient tool that will help you monitor your computer’s performance and pinpoint which programs, processes and aspects of your system causes this slowdown. ![]() How are you going to identify the real cause of this? You also disabled background processes but your machine still refuses to run smoothly. But what if you have a new computer and you noticed that it went slow suddenly? What are you going to do? You already uninstalled programs and apps from it but still it is slow. An old computer having a lot of files and installed programs on it also slows down significantly which is one sign that it already needs to undergo software reinstallation. Some of these reasons are easily identified as useless software running in the background, unused programs taking up too much system resource, viruses and malware and as well as other hardware related errors like outdated drivers or a hard disk that has already went past the limits of its storage capacity. Computers normally slow down for certain reasons. ![]()
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