Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Thu Jun 4 10:42:23 CDT 2009
Well I got them both and the amount of information is staggering. Second only to the amount of information I didn't understand. :) But they're probably a good thing to have in the back pocket in case of a really odd problem. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:38 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging Try Process Explorer and Autoruns from Microsoft. They work together if you have them both. Like Task Manager on Steroids. In fact one option allows you to replace TM with PE. Right click menu has a number of helpful options one being Search Online (which uses your browser's default search engine). Autoruns is a startup manager that shows you everything that is automatically starting on your PC each time. Right Click to Process Explorer is very helpful at times. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx Very highly recommended, I use these everyday on every computer I work on. No installation, I have them on my USB stick. On my own PCs I place them in Windows\System32\ and then make a shortcut to those on my Start Menu/Desktop -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:09 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging Max: Good link. I was using the task manager to find out who was hogging the cpu - it was my firewall. Don't know why. I've used the TM to find out what processes were running and clean out the unnecessary ones. Any process you don't know you can paste into a Google search and find out. Right now I have 46 processes running but most of them take 0 cpu. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:51 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Disk Hogging Rocky, you were concerned about cpu usage a day or so ago. This link shows how to monitor disk usage / thrashing etc. You may be able to use it to show what processes are using the cpu. watch for word wrap http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1213&tag=nl.e064 max _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com