Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Administrative Tools is a folder in Control Panel that contains tools for system administrators and advanced users.
These tools were included in previous versions of Windows. The associated documentation for each tool should help you use these tools in Windows. Regardless of how you launch them, these tools can help you do everything from diagnose crashes to examine system performance to improve security. Windows includes a Memory Diagnostic tool that restarts your computer so nothing is loaded into memory and tests your memory for defects—much like the popular MemTest86 application.
You can view computer-wide CPU, disk, network, and memory graphics, or drill down and view per-process statistics for each type of resource. You can see which processes are using your disk or network heavily, which are communicating with Internet addresses, and more. The Resource Monitor provides much more detailed resource statistics than the Task Manager does.
The Performance Monitor app can collect performance data from hundreds of different sources. You can use it to log performance data over time—letting you determine how system changes affect performance—or to monitor the performance of a remote computer in real-time. Windows contains a hidden User Accounts utility that provides some options not present in the standard interface. It scans your computer for files that can be safely deleted—temporary files, memory dumps, old system restore points, leftover files from Windows upgrades, and so on.
Advanced users may prefer CCleaner , but Disk Cleanup does a decent job. It provides a wide variety of settings that are designed for use by system administrators to customize and lock down PCs on their networks , but the Local Group Policy Editor also contains settings that average users might be interested in.
For example, in Windows 10, you can use it to hide personal information on the sign in screen. In addition, there are all kinds of Registry tweaks that have no equivalent in group policy at all—like customizing the manufacturer support information on your PC. Fair warning, though: Registry Editor is a complex and powerful tool. And definitely back up the Registry and your computer!
And stick to well-documented Registry tweaks from a source you trust. Prior to Windows 8 and 10, which feature a startup-program manager built into Task Manager , System Configuration was the only included way of controlling startup programs on Windows.
It also allows you to customize your boot loader, which is particularly useful if you have multiple versions of Windows installed. The System Information utility displays all kinds of information about your PC.
Everyone that deals with Windows in a system administrator capacity has to know about the most common of SysAdmin Tools, Task Manager. The nice thing is it keeps getting better with each new version of Windows. The screenshots below show Task Manager from Windows R2. To make sure you see everything, click the button a check box in older versions in the lower left corner. The Processes tab is probably the most useful. Here you can see the list of running processes, how much memory and CPU each process is using, the user account the process is running under and more.
The Performance tab gives some nice charts of CPU utilization. You can also see total memory, kernel memory, etc. A low amount of Free memory is not a bad thing — it often means Windows is using your RAM to cache parts of the hard disk, thus speeding up many operations.
If the RAM is needed, the caches will give it back. One of the best kept secrets, the Resource Monitor, is also accessible from here. Have you ever been using a computer or server and noticed it get really sluggish? Sometimes you can hear the disk thrashing and know that some process is busier than you want it to be. Start the Resource Monitor and click the Disk tab.
Looking at the file names will sometimes give a hint about whether the process is doing a backup, writing to a log file, or some other activity. Performance Monitor is a real gem on Windows, and many IT folks would benefit by becoming more comfortable with it. The operating system publishes many useful stats here active database connections, active HTTP connections, CPU usage, time per disk read, network usage, process memory, etc.
In addition, other application providers can also include stats, and most all? When you first start perfmon. Also note that Perfmon can connect to other computers on your network and display their counter values. The Services applet services.
Right click a service and go to Properties. Here you can tell Windows what it should do if the service stops unexpectedly crashes. Restarting the service is often a good option. It shows a wealth of information about problems that might be happening on a server, including hardware errors, server restarts and more. If you have a blue screen, a server hang, or an application misbehaving, look in the Event Log first.
PsExec can be very handy in many situations. Unix has its cron, and Windows has Task Scheduler. Task Scheduler can be found in Administrator Tools, or started via taskschd. From the screenshot, you can see that various companies Google and Adobe for example will create scheduled tasks so their applications are launched periodically for some background processing.
Windows itself has many tasks it uses. And of course, you can easily create your own. Or run a periodic database cleanup script. Or to check for updates. To see connections along with the process that created them, run netstat —b. To see current connections as well as ports that are listening for incoming connections, run netstat —ab as shown below:.
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