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Statistics Task Manager is really quite
useful in monitoring the system's performance and resource use.
However, by default, it doesn't monitor as many performance
parameters as most would like. Here's how you can change the
performance parameters monitored by Task Manager.
- Open Task Manager by pressing Alt-Ctrl-Del and then
clicking on the Task Manager button.
- Click on the Processes tab and you will see the performance
statistics, just like the example below :-
- Now, click on the View menu and select the Select
Columns... option.
- The following screen will appear. Here you can remove or add
any performance parameter you want Task Manager to monitor for
you.
- Click OK and you can see the new list of monitored parameters
in Task Manager.
Notes
- If you accidentally double-click the Processes screen area
(the gray border), you may get the screen below. To revert back,
just double-click anywhere on the gray border, as shown in the
example below.
- Incidentally, the above feature allows quick access to the
Processes screen. After the screen has been set to the clean
Processes screen above, clicking the Task Manager button will
immediately bring up the screen above instead of the other Task
Manager screens.
- You can also add a link to the Task Manager in the Startup
folder and set it to Minimize. This loads up Task Manager as a
green icon in the tray at start up, which monitors your CPU
usage. Double-clicking the icon immediately brings up Task
Manager. This requires some initial work but will make it easier
for you to access Task Manager. BTW, the Task Manager is usually
found here - Drive:\WINNT\system32\taskmgr.exe
(Thanks to LarryInAz for this tip!)
See more tips
on how to access Task Manager quickly!
- Task Manager uses about 1.8MB of memory so if you are
short of RAM, you might not want to load Task Manager
automatically at start up.
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Thanks for your time and I hope this tip has helped you some! :)
Adrian Wong
Adrian's Rojak Pot
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