Here you’ll find several panes of information about the network activity happening on your machine. (Yes, all these similar sounding names can be quite confusing.)Īs I said, I’m going to focus on using Resource Monitor to monitor network activity. Resource Monitor is probably somewhere between Task Manager and our old friend Process Explorer in complexity, with just a hint of Process Monitor thrown in. Resource Monitor is really just a process monitor with a different interface. In fact, if instead of running “perfmon”, you run “perfmon /res” (without the quotes), you come directly to this interface. In the descriptive text in the upper pane, you’ll see a link that says “Open Resource Monitor”. It’s a fairly intimidating application, unless you’re well-versed in Windows technical details, so it’s decidedly not what I’m recommending here. If you run “perfmon” (Windows Key + “R”, enter “perfmon”, click OK) you’ll end up with something similar to this. Perfmon, the system performance monitor, has been around for a long time. It actually can monitor several areas of your computer’s activity, but I’ll focus here on networking. It’s a utility that quickly displays a lot of information about what’s going on. Of late, I’ve found myself firing up a completely different utility included in Windows 7 and 8 to monitor network activity. The problem is that it’s a pretty geeky tool, and requires a little patience and understanding to get useful results. My normal response for this type of problem is to turn to Process Monitor, a free SysInternals utility from Microsoft.
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