1.4 The five most essential utilities

Operating systems provide utilities to administer, troubleshoot, and context sensitive help to use the tools. For Windows Operating System Utilities the five most essential utilities are:

a) Windows Diagnostics

The Windows Diagnostics program can help you determine your operating system’s configuration. This tool can be found in Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Computer Management.

b) Windows Performance Monitor

Performance Monitor is a Windows graphical tool for measuring the performance of your own computer or other computers on a network. We can view the behavior of the processors, memory, cache, threads, and processes. A set of counters provide information on device usage, queue lengths, and delays, as well as information used for throughput and internal congestion measurements. It provides charting, alerting, and reporting capabilities that reflect current activity along with ongoing logging.

1.4 The five most essential utilities

Operating systems provide utilities to administer, troubleshoot, and context sensitive help to use the tools. For Windows Operating System Utilities the five most essential utilities are:

c) Windows Event Viewer

Event Viewer is a tool for monitoring events in our system. We can use Event Viewer to view and manage System, Security, and Application event logs. To access the Event Viewer, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Manage. The Computer Management Window is displayed. The Event Viewer is available under the System Tools.

d) Windows Registry Editor

This program can be used to view the system configuration and environment.

e) Windows Task Manager

The Task Manager enables you to monitor and control your computer and what is running on it. It shows you programs and processes that are running as well as performance. To access the Task Manager, right click an empty area in the task bar and click Task Manager.