Windows tools

The following tools are available for Windows.

Tool	Description
Task Manager	The Windows Task Manager provides information about programs and processes running on your computer. It also displays the most commonly used performance measures for processes. You can access the Task Manager by right-clicking an empty area on the task bar on your Windows machine.
Performance Monitor	The Performance Monitor provides details about the resources used by specific components of the operating system and by programs that have been designed to collect performance data. You can access the Performance Monitor from the Control Panel by selecting Administrative Tools > Performance.
Other performance tools	Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com) offers useful freeware tools, including the following: Process Explorer, which shows you information about which handles and DLL processes have opened or loaded. TCPView, which shows you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows NT, 2000, and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint.

Tool

Description

Task Manager

The Windows Task Manager provides information about programs and processes running on your computer. It also displays the most commonly used performance measures for processes.

You can access the Task Manager by right-clicking an empty area on the task bar on your Windows machine.

Performance Monitor

The Performance Monitor provides details about the resources used by specific components of the operating system and by programs that have been designed to collect performance data.

You can access the Performance Monitor from the Control Panel by selecting Administrative Tools > Performance.

Other performance tools

Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com) offers useful freeware tools, including the following:

Process Explorer, which shows you information about which handles and DLL processes have opened or loaded.
TCPView, which shows you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows NT, 2000, and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint.