Your budget year is coming to a close, and you still haven’t decided if your aging server will get either a memory upgrade or a hard drive upgrade. What Windows utility would allow you to baseline both the memory utilization of your server and the disk drive usage over time?
A) Windows Explorer
B) Task Manager
C) Services
D) Performance Manager
The answer: D) Performance Manager
Performance Manager can provide long-term information on hundreds of statistics inside of your computer, including memory usage and hard drive space.
The incorrect answers:
A) Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer provides file-level access to information, but it doesn’t gather any statistics.
B) Task Manager
The Windows task manager provides a nice set of real-time statistics about performance and memory, but it doesn’t save this information or provide an ongoing analysis of hard drive usage.
C) Services
If you need to start, stop, or modify a Windows service, the Services applet in the Control Panel is a good place to visit. The Services applet can’t help with baselining any of those services, however.
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Want to know more? Watch “Optimizing the Windows Operating System.”Windows includes a number of utilities that can help optimize the performance of applications. In this video, we’ll show you how to use Task Manager and Performance Manager, and we’ll discuss best practices for optimizing the Windows operating system. |