In terms of monitoring CPU usage, bandwidth usage, and RAM usage, is there any sort of monitoring program that's better than 'Windows Task Manager'? Or is this a dumb question? :bugeye:

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there are some I've heard of, let's see if I can find one. I never use them much.

here's one: http://www.tiler.com/FreeMeter/Features.php

I've seen many others on the screensavers and call for help on tech tv. Two good shows for finding little utilities like this, but they're all buried in the show notes and I can't find them. Pcworld usually has good utilities too. Check out their download section.

Gee, I thought MS had a sysmon as a utility though it might not be loaded from the OS CD by default. Bandwidth monitoring might be something it doesn't cover and a third party program may be in order for that. Ah, here's a site about it and how to load it http://www.onecomputerguy.com/app_info/sysmon.htm

Oh yeah, if you have windows xp, you can use the performance monitor in administrative tools. It's in the control panel by default I think. If I remember right, there is a system monitor in the system tools subfolder of the accessories folder on your start menu. Could be wrong about that.