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Page File Usage
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Commit charge
The amount of memory that has been assigned to running processes
Disk time
The amount of time that the disk subsystem is busy reading from and writing to disk.
Process Utilization
The amount of time the processor spends performing non-idle tasks
Memory pages per second
The number of hard faults that occur each second.
Disk Queue Length
The number of read and write requests that are waiting to be processed.
Performance monitor
Which tool can you use to gather and display statistics that help you monitor the operation of a Windows System?
Performance
You need to use Task Manager to analyze memory utilization on a Windows system. For example, you need to see how much system RAM is currently in use and how much is available. Click on the tab in Task Manager that you would use to do this.
Startup
You recently installed several applications on Windows system. After doing so, you notice the system takes much longer to boot up. You suspect that the new applications include one or more helper applications that are automatically loaded when the system boots. To improve performance, you want to identify any such helper applications and disable them.
Task manager can display CPU utilization graphs for all eight processors
Your computer has a quad-core that supports multithreading installed. Given that the system is running Windows, how can you verify multithreading has been enabled?
Use the resource monitor to monitor memory utilization Use task manager to monitor memory utilization
Your computer seems to be running slowly. In particular, you see that the hard drive activity light stays lit constantly when running multiple actions and switching between open windows, even though you aren't saving large files. What could you do to troubleshoot the problem?
System
Your job functions have have recently changed. As a result, you find that you are needing to work with more running programs on your Windows 10 computer at a time. Although you haven't seen these in the past, you are starting to receive error messages warning you of low virtual memory. However, no additional RAM can be added to your computer. Which of the following Control Panel utilities would best allow you to eliminate or reduce the number of error messages?
