![]() Resource Monitor is a handy tool to use when you need to get under the hood with your Windows computer. The key to finding issues when they occur, is using a tool to help track down the problem. Preferably an SSD drive which I will be recommending to the client. In this case the laptop which is getting old in age, could use a memory upgrade along with a faster hard drive. zip files are already compressed files and the additional compression won’t do much. For example, if you compress a drive full of. If the drive contains files that are already compressed or just don’t compress well, you won’t save much space. NOTE: Disk utilization had settled down somewhat, but for the purpose of this tutorial, the goal is to demonstrate how to get behind a process and view the cause of what is consuming the majority of disk activity. It depends on the types of files you’ll be compressing. Now we can see what was the cause of 100% Disk Utilization. In this example we can immediately see the culprit – Page File writes are occurring, which resides on the hard disk. Once again, click on Total (B/sec) column to sort high to low. Now click the check box next to it (to filter) and in the Disk Activity section below, all sub-process within System will be displayed. Once it opens, click on the Disk tab, then in the Processes with Disk Activity section click on Total (B/sec) column to sort high to low. To open Resource Manager within Task Manager, click on Performance tab, then click on Open Resource Manager link at bottom of window. In that case, Windows Resource Manager can help identify what is going on behind the System process. But other times it's not easily identifiable when it's a System process, such as the case shown in the above screen shot. Sometimes you can quickly identify the cause of high disk utilization by clicking on the Disk column (to sort utilization from high to low) and see the process or application, such as Firefox or Chrome. In this case, it is disk utilization pegged at 100% utilization. Once Task Manager opens, you will be able to spot the bottle neck from the Process tab. ![]() To do so, I like to use Ctrl + Shift + Esc as the simple way or Ctrl + Alt + Delete and click the Task Manager option. To identify the root cause of high disk utilization, first make sure it's not something else causing the slow down by opening Task Manager. But if you want to find the cause, patience is needed. ![]() Keep in mind, once high disk utilization occurs, opening anything including tools will be slow. NOTE: Windows 10 was used for this tutorial.
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