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Useful Windows Tools

Although we have used Windows system for many years, most of us have been do not know about some useful tools which is there in windows.

They help us to monitor our system process. If problem happens in system operation, they help us to identify the problem and resolve the same.

Such, known tools but not using often, unknown tools are follows.

1. System Information

 The system information tool provides information about our system, in particular about hardware devices. It can be classified as follows:

  • Various segment of Hardware devices
  • Drivers
  • Application programs
  • Internet Settings

To get this, navigate as follows:

  • Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> System Information
User can get most of the information related to hardware devices from this option. Though followings are few which are very useful.

  1.1  System Summary

It provides basic information about the computer such as Information related to Operating System and its version, Computer manufacturer, Computer model and its BIOS register etc.

 1.2  Display

It provides information about Graphics version and its model, manufacturer, memory capacity.

 1.3 Network Adapter

It provides information related to wired and wireless networks which are connected to the system.

1.4 Storage Drivers

All hardware and optical drivers will be shown in this section. We can see the driver's total memory capacity and its free space also.

By using this system information, we cannot modify any system information. But without any external software, we can know information about our system and its hardware drivers. We can save this information as a file in our system. Similarly, we can know information about other computers also, if they connected in a network. 

Speccy, Hardware Freak and CPUZ are few tools which gives you more information about your system.

 2. Windows Memory Diagnostic 

Problems occurs in memory will cause problem in system functioning. We cannot segregate this problem.  Problems may disable the running applications. It may crash the whole system. It occurs suddenly. Windows Memory Diagnostic is a tool to know about this problem. 

To get this tool, navigate as follows:
  • Control Panel --> Administrative Tools
There is a problem to use this tool. To open this, windows to reboot again. This tool has to be activated before windows loads. When system loads again, Windows Memory Diagnostic takes booting action to itself. It will analyse the memory problems and will give you the results. 

3. Event Viewer

When windows loads, Event Viewer logs all the steps.. These events, the list includes many things . Nevertheless , we are able to do more than is available in the Windows Logs folder. We can list the following three events .
  • Application Log
  • System Log
  • Security Log
4. Performance Monitor

To monitor windows process and its performance, windows provides more than one tool. By using 'Windows Task Manager', we can view the system process immediately. To know the process deeply, we should use 'Performance Monitor'.

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