| Use Resource Monitor to pinpoint performance problems
By Ed Bott
The Performance tab in Windows 10's Task Manager offers a useful at-a-glance view of your system's overall performance, with graphs and details showing live stats for usage by your CPU, memory, storage, network adapter, and GPU.
When you want to dig deeper, click Open Resource Monitor at the bottom of the Performance tab. That opens the venerable Performance Monitor tool (Perfmon.exe) in a special view that offers far more details about what's happening with those key system components. (To open Resource Monitor from a command line or a script, you'll need to use a switch: perfmon.exe /res.)
In Resource Monitor, each tab has a Processes list at top, where you can select one or more individual processes for further scrutiny. Expand the panes below that list to see the filtered details for your selection.
One especially useful trick with Resource Monitor is to find the temporary location of a large download. On the Disk tab, expand the Disk Activity pane; then click the Write (B/sec) column heading to sort in descending order. That moves any current downloads to the top of the list, where you'll find the full path under the File heading. | As cloud and mobile become the convergence points for enterprise communications and collaboration,enterprise planners have to focus on a global open cloud strategy to facilitate effective internal and external collaborative business workflows. |
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