Identifying Performance Problems with System Monitor

If you want to use System Monitor effectively, you need to run it frequently to become familiar with what typical performance looks like for a standard configuration so that you can recognize performance problems when they appear in System Monitor.

To become well-acquainted with System Monitor, run it while you are doing your usual work under Windows 95. To do this, add the System Monitor icon to your desktop. Then run System Monitor and use commands on the View menu to remove the title bar or to force the window to be always on top.

The following presents some general guidelines and key settings for using System Monitor in troubleshooting performance problems:

The following basic example shows several memory management statistics over a few minutes while Windows-based word processing, spreadsheet, and mail applications were loaded and several files were opened.