In windows 7 you can monitor the performance of your PC using the performance monitor. From the console you can monitor application and hardware performance in real time. You can run Windows Performance monitor to examine how programs you run affect the performance of your PC.
To start the Performance Monitor you need to open the start menu and in the search bar, type perfmon and press enter
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The home screen of the Performance Monitor will look like this.From here you can view a summary of the system, as well as click on the links for more help.
If you select Monitoring Tools and then Performance Monitor in the sidebar you will see a screen that looks similar to this. This is a graphic representation of the load on your processor.
There are a number of things you can do from this screen. You can select to add other hardware that would like to monitor by clicking on the plus sign in the toolbar at the top of the window.
You can then select which hardware you would like to monitor by selecting the item you want, then selecting the instance and clicking add. We are going to monitor all processor instances.
You will find that there are now multiple lines in the performance monitor window, and these can be hard to decipher.
To make it easier to read you can select a particular counter that you are interested in, and click the highlight button at the top of the screen. This will make the corresponding line for that counter black, so it stands out.
You can also delete counters from the screen by clicking the red cross at the top of the screen.
You also have the option in the sidebar menu to view Data Collector Sets. A Data Collector Set captures multiple statistics and saves them in a permanent record. Sets can contain readings from Performance counters, Event trace data, System configuration information and even registry values. These Sets also combine the old Alert feature of Performance Monitor. All you need to do is experiment with different thresholds and rules for scheduling data collection. Another useful troubleshooting tactic is to run WMI (Windows Management Interface) tasks after the Data Collector finishes.
Under system diagnostics in the sidebar there are many data collector sets you can view.
When you double click on one of the sets you can view if there are any registry key entries.
You can view any management paths,
You can also view any file captures.
You can perform a system capture
And you can name the file for the set you are viewing.
There are less options under System Performance. When you double click on a set you can see the performance counters and name the set file.
Event tracing is a kernel-level tracing facility that lets you log kernel or application defined events to a log file. These log files can be used to debug an application, or establish where performance issues are occuring in the application. You need to select the Event Trace Sessions option in the sidebar and then double click on the item you want to view from the list.
The first tab of properties for an event trace sessions shows the trace providers. You can add or remove trace providers, edit the properties of the providers and add extra security.
Under the trace session tab you can change the session name, change the stream mode, and pre-allocate space for the file.
The security tab allows you to give and remove users access to the file.
The trace buffers tab gives you the option to set the minimum and maximum buffer size.
The file tab allows you to edit file options.
The directory tab gives you the option to edit directory information.
The stop condition tab allows you to set the options of when you want the data collector to stop and start.
And that is a very basic run down of how to monitor systems in Windows 7.
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