It is clear that any person working with a computer would like to achieve the highest possible speed from him and squeeze out everything that he is capable of from it. For such purposes, a lot of various programs have been developed today, not to mention that, in principle, you can do without them even if you know what tools you can use in the Windows systems themselves. But it is often necessary not only to increase the speed, but to identify the cause of the braking of the PC or laptop, which with a one-time elimination can still occur again. In other words, you need to perform monitoring using some kind of program. Computer system performance, as it turns out, can be checked quite simply. And for this, you can offer several options for using software for different purposes.
Monitoring system performance: the heart of the matter
First of all, it is necessary to determine what kind of meaning is invested in understanding the components that ensure the speed of a computer system. On the one hand, this may relate to the performance of “iron” components such as the central and graphic processors, RAM, hard disk, etc. On the other hand, a similar definition can be applied to the software part, which uses the computing capabilities of the equipment directly or indirectly. Thus, it is necessary to test both the hardware and software components of a complete computer system.
Built-in Windows programs for monitoring the system (computer)
Before using utilities from third-party developers, which look more informative, and even able to clean up the system automatically, you should separately dwell on the monitoring tools built into the latest generation Windows systems. Apparently, every more or less literate user drew attention to the fact that in the "Task Manager" you can not only track the impact of all processes on the CPU and RAM, sorting them precisely by the resource load indicator, but also use the visual tool on the performance tab ( on earlier systems, this is the performance tab).
Among other things, there is another “native” program for checking the computer system, called the resource monitor. In it, you can get advanced information on loads in real time either for the entire system as a whole, or for any particular process or service.
Another tool is the performance index definition applet. But its use for a comprehensive assessment of the performance of the system looks very doubtful, since the overall rating is set solely on the basis of the lowest indicator and is not even an average score.
Programs for checking the computer system: the main varieties
Now let's move on to third-party utilities. All programs for checking the computer system can conditionally be divided into several categories:
- information applications that provide general information on all components or on individual equipment (processors, video cards, hard drives, etc.);
- applications for changing device operating modes;
- software performance analyzers;
- optimizers that allow you to identify problems associated with reduced performance, and eliminate them automatically or in manual mode.
Iron Testing Applications
Information utilities are also of several types. For example, applications like AIDA64, Speecy, CPU / GPU-Z and others can be used for general monitoring.
Some programs are designed solely to test the performance of the equipment (Memetest86 / 86 +, CrystalDiskMark, Victoria HDD, etc.). Another variety of programs allows you to not only track the operation mode of some components, but also perform changes to some parameters (change the fan speed, overclock the video card, perform a stress test of the equipment to adapt to computer games or to increase FPS).
Analysis of the computer software
With the software part is not so simple. By and large, you can not use narrowly targeted applications, say, to scan the registry and fix incorrect or outdated keys (RegCleaner, Registry Optimizer), but use whole multitasking packages.
Any such program can check the computer system fully automatically. Most applications allow you to specify which modules you need to use when performing the test. For example, in almost all world ratings, the first places are unconditionally occupied by such powerful software products as CCleaner, All-in-one-Toolbox, Advanced SystemCare, SpeedUpMyPC, Easy Service Optimizer, Windows Manager and the like.
In the programs themselves, to check the computer system, you need to select the desired section or mark the modules necessary for testing, after which you can view the scan results. It will also be offered to fix all the problems found, and in some cases, to automate the processes, the point of fixing the found problems can be noted immediately during the verification process.