• Outside what says in the title, what else could you use performance monitor for?

    Cool "wiggly line" dashboard to make your office feel more computerey

  • Possibly the only utility that has persisted and not been meddled with since NT 3.1!

    I kinda think NT4 introducing the Task Manager made this information a little easier to observe on a running system whereby you weren't needing to record the performance counters

  • For looking at performance? It purpose hasn't changed.

    Is this bot post?

  • It's very useful for analyzing program and component bottlenecks; I don't know why gamers don't use it more frequently to analyze the bottlenecks they experience.

    How do you use it for that? I mean seriously, how? Is there some tutorial online, examples etc?

  • Cisco's UCM generates PerfMon logs, so I used it a couple of times to visualise the logs to troubleshoot the issue

  • A great complimentary tool to the event log viewer. Good for logging RAM and CPU usage and cross referencing with the event log viewer to determine why a computer is being slow at a certain time of day.

  • Yes! I use it to monitor performance. That's a particularly valuable function now that the Task Manager massages it's data.

    Did you have something else in mind?

  • I use it to mon my perf

  • Great for making log files on why the computer is slowing down.

  • We use it to Monitor ram and HDD usage and other stuff on windows servers with PRTG. Less performance impact compared to wmi.

  • I use it to see how efficient my personal fork bombs are working in case I need to use my emergency fork bomb.

    But it’s also useful for monitoring how much I’m making my computer work in blender (for my 3d fork bombs of course)

  • It's for reading advanced logs from Data Collector Set. Some of the data can even be 3rd party with the right plugin.

  • I think it’s the best thing for the price to poll performance counters and display the results. What else are people using if you want performance counter data?

  • Well, how about putting them into some giant screen to show the C Suits that our systems are working 😉

  • I use it as a random number generator. When I need a random number I just do some arithmetic on the values to get one. It is not very useful but it's the only use case I found for a performance monitor 🤷

  • I have a Alienware laptop and it’s not win 11 upgradable, I heard there are ways and we like to debloat. Thank you for any and all your help.