Use of Resource Monitor

The Performance Monitor and the Resource Monitor are two additional tools that administrators and advanced users of Windows may use to investigate problems with the performance or availability of resources on Windows personal computers.

What is the Resource Monitor?

The Resource Monitor became a standard component of Microsoft's operating systems beginning with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The software giant has included it in every new version of Windows it has produced ever since. The application provides information in real-time about the available hardware and software resources. The Task Manager is an application that works on the surface, which is the best way to explain it. It details the many operations and services and the overall resource use.

How to Get Resource Monitor Up and Running?

When starting Resource Monitor, users and administrators have a few different alternatives. It includes several different versions of Windows; however, some versions of the operating system are the only ones that provide certain launch choices for the programme. All versions of Windows that are maintained by Microsoft ought should be compatible with the first two approaches.

• To open the run box, use Windows-R on your keyboard. After you have typed resmon.exe, press the Enter key.
• To open the run box, use Windows-R on your keyboard. After entering perfmon.exe /res, press the Enter key to finish.
• When using Windows 10, go to the Start menu, then pick All Apps, Windows Administrative Tools, and Resource Monitor.
• In older versions of Windows, you could access Resource Monitor by going to the Start menu and selecting All Programs, Accessories, and System Tools.
• Simply pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc will launch the Windows Task Manager. Click "open Resource Monitor" under the Performance tab once you have navigated to that section.

The Windows Resource Monitor

There is no difference in the appearance of the Resource Monitor interface between Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Tabs are used by the application to partition the data. The application has a total of five tabs, and they are labelled as follows: Overview, CPU, Memory, and Disk. When you first start the software, an overview is loaded into memory. This summary provides a list of data for the central processing unit (CPU), discs, networks, and memory, including all processes that require resources.

The sidebar presents graphs illustrating the usage of the central processing unit (CPU), disc space, the network, and memory during one minute. You can reveal or conceal certain items by clicking on the arrow symbol in the title bars. You can also personalise the interface by moving the mouse cursor over the present separators and dragging the visible area. You may use it to adjust the amount of the element shown to the viewer.

Monitor CPU Usage with Resource Monitor

It would help if you went to the CPU tab to keep a close eye on how much your CPU is being used. On this page, in addition to the processes listing found on the overview page, you will also discover three additional listings: Services, Associated Handles, and Associated Modules. You may filter the data using the processes only to show it for certain processes. Quite helpful since it provides a speedy method to see linkages between processes, services, and other files on the system. It's pretty convenient.

Processes

On the CPU tab of Resource Monitor, you have some control over the programmes and services that are running. When you right-click on any process, a context menu will appear, giving you a choice to terminate the currently chosen process or the whole process tree, suspend or restart processes, and do an internet search.

Memory in Resource Monitor

The CPU tab lists processes, while the memory tab does the same thing, focusing on how much memory each process uses. On top of that, it has a physical memory view, which can see the memory allocation throughout the Windows computer.

Information On Disk Activity

In the Windows Resource Monitor, clicking on the tab labelled "Disk" will give you a list of the disc activity of programmes and information about storage. It displays the overall disc utilisation as well as the consumption for each process that is executed. You receive a readout of each process's read and write activity on the disc, and you can use the filtering options to filter the results by a specific process or many processes.

Network Activity in Resource Monitor

The Network tab lists the active TCP connections, listening ports, and network activities. You will obtain TCP connection listings, which show external servers that processes connect to, the amount of bandwidth used, and the local listening ports.