![]() ![]() In general, the last two or even three one are not something you want or need to use. For experienced users, it can be useful for spotting malware or securty holes in software. Basically, it shows you how much memory it uses and what kind of purpose and traits it holds. It isn't very useful for an end-user, although it can sometimes give clues towards certain behaviour. It's basically RamMap, except it is focused on one process as opposed to being focused on your entire machines memory situation. VMMap basically dissects a running process, showing you exactly what 'health' it was in at a certain point in time. Much of the simple information is stuff Process Explorer also offers, but the views in this are far better for comparing the behaviour in which its memory is used. RamMap is a kind of Process Explorer, focusing only on the memory usage at a specific point in time. All around though, this thing is like a needle in a haystack, and requies a fair bit of effort, especially if you lack experience with it. If a process stalls, you can easily spot it because the timestamps will show a gap, and Process Monitor more than likely shows what the program was doing right before or after that. This tends to not focus on memory or cpu, but rather on actions performed. On a good note, it has a very powerful filtering system, so after you are done capturing it (or before you start), you can just hide everything you don't want logged. Having it running for five seconds can easily give you 10,000 lines of diagnostic information. A program accessing a single value inside the Registry tends to cause multiple log entries, for example. However, it is also the most cumbersome to use. Process Monitor is basically a logger such as the one you are looking for. The first thing I do after I reinstall Windows is to replace Task Manager with this program it is really THAT useful. It's very easy to see which processes keep hammering your computer every few seconds, for example. If you keep it running in the tray, you can pop it up at any time and see the processes recent behaviour with regards to CPU, Memory and I/O. It's the powertool of process management, showing you so much ******* shit about all of your proceses that 99% of the time you'll find a very strong clue, if not direct cause, to what is causing your computer to slow down. Process Explorer is a replacement for Task Manager. Most places where programs can hook into your computer and slow it down is listed inside of it, and you can either disable or delete items to try and improve your computers performance. The majority you'll (almost) never use, some you'll end up using daily.Īutoruns won't help your situation too much, but it basically msconfig on steroids. Download the whole suite, and unzip them somewhere of your liking (mine go into C:\Programs\Sysinternals) they're a pretty useful bunch all around. In general, the Sysinternals programs have a lot of diagnostic tools that can help you with this kind of issue. Most likely, you have a specific issue, causing bad performance in a certain situation and you want to know what causes it. It's like profiling a cars performance by blindly gauging its speed and fuel left in the tank, not keeping in mind whether you are inside a city, stopped at a traffic light, or whether you may have a caravan hooked up. The amount of Virtual Memory allocated by a process doesn't represent the amount of 'physically' takes up in your RAM, so while high numbers may show you there is a bad memory leak or greedy memory usage in a program, it won't mean anything with regards to 'improving' your computers performance. I'm going out on a limb and ask you why this is important to have. ![]()
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