Windows XP Home Resources

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How do you check the system resources in Windows XP Home?
In the ME edition you could right click on my computer, hit
properties and performance and it would give you the % of
resources being used. I can't for the life of me find this
in XP. Thank you!
 
Lee said:
How do you check the system resources in Windows XP Home?
In the ME edition you could right click on my computer, hit
properties and performance and it would give you the % of
resources being used. I can't for the life of me find this
in XP. Thank you!
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Right-click the taskbar and click "Task Manager". Click the "Performance"
tab. :)
 
XP doesn't use "resources" in the same way that W98/ME did,
there is no 64 kb file used to keep track of open programs.
XP has basically unlimited resources. As the other poster
said, you can check performance by pressing the three finger
salute.


| How do you check the system resources in Windows XP Home?
| In the ME edition you could right click on my computer,
hit
| properties and performance and it would give you the % of
| resources being used. I can't for the life of me find this
| in XP. Thank you!
 
Lee said:
How do you check the system resources in Windows XP Home?
In the ME edition you could right click on my computer, hit
properties and performance and it would give you the % of
resources being used.
Click to expand...

That term in ME was very specifically related to the use of two small
areas of memory used for '16 bit heaps'. There is no such structure in
XP, no limit that would correspond, and hence no measure. Resources now
is used much more naturally of CPU time; memory usage or disk space.
You can monitor the first two in Task Manager (find it when your-click
in the Task bar) where the Processes page can be set in its View to
show CPU and memory matters. The figures given on the Performance page
though for memory can be very misleading if you do not know *exactly*
what they refer to. In particular 'available Physical memory' is *not*
the only memory available to load a program; it would be better called
'RAM for which there is currently no conceivable use whatever'
 
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