Windows Diagnostics – Your FREE Assessment

Windows Diagnostics – Your FREE Assessment

Have you ever wanted to do a quick health-check on your Windows PC but not sure what diagnostics tool(s) to use?

This week, we’ll review a simple built-in utility in Windows called Resource and Performance Monitor and how to use it for a quick diagnostic.

NOTE: These steps work in Windows 7 through 10. The diagnostics aren’t exhaustive — but you’ll gain perspective without having to enlist a potentially un-trusting third-party tool (many of which exist in the wild).

 

Press Windows Key + R on your keyboard.

 

In the Run dialog box, type: perfmon /report as shown below and click OK.

 

Windows Diagnostics - Your FREE Assessment

 

The Resource and Performance Monitor will appear and it will take 60 seconds to collect its data.

 

Windows Diagnostics - Your FREE Assessment

 

When it finishes, an overall summary of system health appears in the Resource Overview section. Additionally, there are a number of specific areas that can be expanded based on component.

 

Windows Diagnostics - Your FREE Assessment

 

Some of the info might be hard to grasp, but there’s a handy Save As feature we’re going to look at next. Why save it? If you have any questions/concerns about the results, this will allow you to share it with Tech-Tree.

 

Click File > Save As…

 

Windows Diagnostics - Your FREE Assessment

 

Name and save the file to a folder where you’ll easily find it; we suggest saving it to the Desktop.

 

Open the file for review. Or email the file to us at support@tech-tree.ca for further assistance.

 

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