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Find bottlenecks in Windows 7
We've seen so far Windows 7 is already performing better than Vista, but if your PC seems sluggish then it's now much easier to uncover the bottleneck. Windows 7 Resource Monitor provides you many ways to find out the source of your problem.
To open Resource Monitor and find the bottleneck:
We've seen so far Windows 7 is already performing better than Vista, but if your PC seems sluggish then it's now much easier to uncover the bottleneck. Windows 7 Resource Monitor provides you many ways to find out the source of your problem.
To open Resource Monitor and find the bottleneck:
- Click Start, type RESMON and press [Enter].
- The Resource Monitor window opens up as below.
- Click the CPU, Memory, Disk or Network tabs. Windows 7 will immediately show which processes are hogging the most system resources.
- The CPU view is particularly useful, and provides something like a more powerful version of Task Manager.
- If a program has locked up, for example, then right-click its name in the list and select Analyze Process. Windows will then try to tell you why it's hanging - the program might be waiting for another process, perhaps - which could give you the information you need to fix the problem.