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Windows Performance Monitor

Windows Performance Monitor is a graphical tool that provides a visual display of built-in Windows performance counters, either in real time or as a way to review historical data. It is supplied as part of the installation of any Windows server or workstation (in Windows Server 2008 it is called Reliability and Performance Monitor). Hundreds of performance counters are available. These counters can be monitored on the local machine or remotely over the network, and they can be set up to monitor any object and counter on multiple systems at once from one session. A small subset of performance information is also available via the Windows Task Manager Performance tab. However, all this information and more is available ...