I’m sorry but this claim that the article makes is just fear-mongering B.S. – “In the case of Resource Monitor, you can cause all kinds of trouble if you experiment without knowing what you’re doing.” Nonsense! Resource Monitor only does monitoring. You cannot break anything by playing around with monitoring. Worst you could do is end process(es) that shouldn’t be ended. I would hardly call that “all kinds of trouble.” Sensationalist fear-mongering to make the article’s author feel more important, methinks.
I note several questions here which have gone unanswered & worse un-acknowledged.
A lengthy dissertation with few practical examples of the more common problems.
But until now I did not even know the existence of RM.
Is it possible to arrange a quick launch?
Hi.
It happen that my laptop is getting stoped some times.
Its an i7 with 16gb RAM and when i’m working with a lot of programs, I can see that i only use 10gb ram and cpu is fine, but the disk is always at 100%, what can i do to solve this and have my laptop runing faster?
I actually bumped into Resource Monitor by another route…I opened Performance Monitor, and on the top left node ‘Monitoring Tools’, I right clicked and found the option to start Resource Monitor there! 🙂
The blue bar in the CPU total graph is always at 100%, but the green line varies between 0%-10%. Why would the blue bar be showing so high where there is so little CPU activity?
Why can’t I copy text from the fields in the Resource monitor, like for example the Address in the Network section. I need this so I can block that address. Who was the retard that decided not to enable copy?!?!??!
A useful tutorial but what does the ‘highest active time’ in the Disk Activity title bar mean – along with the blue line on the graph? I have had problems with this being at 100% and slowing everything down.
Thanks.
That’s the percentage of the time the disk is active and handling requests. It’s normal for this to be high during disk-intensive processes. If your numbers get very high a lot, you might want to look into getting a faster hard drive.
Thanks for the informative and useful article on Resource Monitor. I have a question, how can I save all the readings of a process that are monitored so that I can share the same with other folks for further analysis.
Lets say, I have selected a process to be monitored for one hr and would like to know how all the readings were.
15 Responses to “How to use the Resource Monitor in Windows”
I’m sorry but this claim that the article makes is just fear-mongering B.S. – “In the case of Resource Monitor, you can cause all kinds of trouble if you experiment without knowing what you’re doing.” Nonsense! Resource Monitor only does monitoring. You cannot break anything by playing around with monitoring. Worst you could do is end process(es) that shouldn’t be ended. I would hardly call that “all kinds of trouble.” Sensationalist fear-mongering to make the article’s author feel more important, methinks.
I think that you are being too sensitive. It is a legitimate warning. You do not want to force-close some system processes.
I note several questions here which have gone unanswered & worse un-acknowledged.
A lengthy dissertation with few practical examples of the more common problems.
But until now I did not even know the existence of RM.
Is it possible to arrange a quick launch?
Hi.
It happen that my laptop is getting stoped some times.
Its an i7 with 16gb RAM and when i’m working with a lot of programs, I can see that i only use 10gb ram and cpu is fine, but the disk is always at 100%, what can i do to solve this and have my laptop runing faster?
how to trouble shoot resource monitor , if it shows blank, while windows is running in the disk tab. Is it normal? if not how to solve this problem
I actually bumped into Resource Monitor by another route…I opened Performance Monitor, and on the top left node ‘Monitoring Tools’, I right clicked and found the option to start Resource Monitor there! 🙂
The blue bar in the CPU total graph is always at 100%, but the green line varies between 0%-10%. Why would the blue bar be showing so high where there is so little CPU activity?
Why can’t I copy text from the fields in the Resource monitor, like for example the Address in the Network section. I need this so I can block that address. Who was the retard that decided not to enable copy?!?!??!
Thanks for providing this information. Can you explain the meaning of when applications on the overview tab, under the CPU section appear in blue?
Very useful tutorial. Thanks
Do you know if there is a way to collect this data?
Maybe with the use of a script?
It’s not working with resmon.exe on my machine (Win 7) – it is perfmon.exe instead? Are you sure resmon is correct?
resmon is what I used, and you can see a screen shot of the results in the article. Have you tried the other ways of starting Resource Monitor?
A useful tutorial but what does the ‘highest active time’ in the Disk Activity title bar mean – along with the blue line on the graph? I have had problems with this being at 100% and slowing everything down.
Thanks.
That’s the percentage of the time the disk is active and handling requests. It’s normal for this to be high during disk-intensive processes. If your numbers get very high a lot, you might want to look into getting a faster hard drive.
Thanks for the informative and useful article on Resource Monitor. I have a question, how can I save all the readings of a process that are monitored so that I can share the same with other folks for further analysis.
Lets say, I have selected a process to be monitored for one hr and would like to know how all the readings were.
Thanks
-Ram