Task Manager CPU monitor not working -- Seeking new Sysmon

[Doug Bashford]

Often my computer slows way down suggesting near 100%
CPU usage. For example screen refresh taking 10 seconds,
or new windows (such as Task Manager) taking 20 secs to open.
But Task Manager history often says I'm using less than 20% (normal).
This is OK if I know what the cause is, such as a virus scan.
Not fine, if there no apperent reason. Not fine at all.

Is there a fix or tweak for this?
Or is it just a HUGE LWI BUG?

I miss My old Win95-98 Sysmon.exe. It could give live
usage graphs for dozens of things including modem speeds up and down,
cache size, memory usage, CPU%, etc. I typically monitored
six things and it caused little or no speed degradation.
Among *other* things it warned me when memory leakage (?)
was getting critical...time to reboot before crash.
And it was just plain cool. Hot and elegant.

Any replacements for Sysmon?
(MS-Wishlist: enable it for XP.)

Thanks!
--Doug

 

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let it be known on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:42:44 GMT
(e-mail address removed) (Doug Bashford) scribed:

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|Often my computer slows way down suggesting near 100%
|CPU usage. For example screen refresh taking 10 seconds,
|or new windows (such as Task Manager) taking 20 secs to open.
|But Task Manager history often says I'm using less than 20% (normal).
|This is OK if I know what the cause is, such as a virus scan.
|Not fine, if there no apperent reason. Not fine at all.
|
|Is there a fix or tweak for this?
|Or is it just a HUGE LWI BUG?
|
|I miss My old Win95-98 Sysmon.exe. It could give live
|usage graphs for dozens of things including modem speeds up and down,
|cache size, memory usage, CPU%, etc. I typically monitored
|six things and it caused little or no speed degradation.
|Among *other* things it warned me when memory leakage (?)
|was getting critical...time to reboot before crash.
|And it was just plain cool. Hot and elegant.
|
|Any replacements for Sysmon?
|(MS-Wishlist: enable it for XP.)
|
|Thanks!
|--Doug

Hi Doug,

You may want to try Sysinternals' Process Explorer for seeing what's taking up all the CPU time.
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx>

It'll give you more info than what Task Manager does.

hth

 

[JS]

You need to find the specific sub-process or application that's taking all
the CPU resources and slowing down your PC.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane' options.
Then expand the process named 'Explorer' (click on the + sign)
In the column on the left named 'CPU', look for any high CPU usage.
Next click on the CPU column to sort the processes by %CPU usage (Highest to
Lowest).
Then click on the process that's using most or all the CPU % the highlight
it,
Now that it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
Search Online
This should display what out there on the web about that process.
You can also double click on any process to open up a more detailed
'Properties' window.

Note: some entries like Explorer and System/Services may need to be expanded
to show the detail,
(sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
entry.

JS

 

[Gerry]

Doug

What are your anti-spyware arrangements?
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

How much RAM memory do you have? What is your CPU processor speed?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

How large is your hard disk and how much free space.

Do you leave the computer on 24/7?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[doug]

Thanks everybody for your quick replies!

My Free Agent newsreader stopped updating this NG
and some others, no new headers, so I'm trying out the MS reader.

I'll try all those suggestions soon.

Doug

What are your anti-spyware arrangements?
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Ooops....none at the moment. I prolly have an old version of Ad-aware
somewhere.
Is that still the best freeware?

How much RAM memory do you have? What is your CPU processor speed?

Basic year-old bargain computer:
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB Available Physical Memory 158.66
MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page
File Space 1.03 GB

Processor x86 Family 15 Model 44 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1603 Mhz

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

tot 318,388 Limit 1,079,928 Peak 48,448

What does that tell you? anything?

Ya know, many moons ago I found a program in the bowels of the machine
that I thought was going to be like the old Sysmon.exe, and I tried to get
it
to monitor a number of functions, to no avail. Now that I think about it,
it's prolly still running. Do you know what that was, and how I can reset
it to default if need be? [red face]

How large is your hard disk and how much free space.

Size 74.50 GB (79,990,812,672 bytes)

Free Space 46.39 GB (49,810,685,952 bytes)

Do you leave the computer on 24/7?

More like 24/3. Rebooting does help.
It gets squirly after 3 days, reboot. I can live with that tho.
It's that Task Manager doesn't see this that worries/bugs me.

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Hope this helps.

I'll try http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware and
the
other links you guys suggested soon! At the moment I'm having worse
problems ...first.
Thanks again, I'll be back
--Doug