Use Microsoft's Process Explorer - a free expanded replacement for Windows' own Task Manager - and this book to diagnose performance problems on your Windows-based PC.
Introduction to Process Explorer makes sense of the confusing maze of technical information that Process Explorer provides to help you focus on what matters most when diagnosing problems.
After guiding you through downloading the free Process Explorer too, the book then goes on to answer the three most common program-related questions:
Who's hogging the CPU?
Who's eating up memory?
Who's thrashing the hard disk?
Building on that the book then also introduces you to the system and process summary information available, once again identifying and focusing on the information that matters most, and always in clear, simple terms for the average computer user.
Process Explorer gives you a view into all sorts of valuable information about your running system. Process Explorer is perhaps the most valuable tool for diagnosing performance and other issues quickly. Introduction to Process Explorer make the tool more accessible and useful.
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