


To get started, choose the Object, Instance, and Counter from the successive combobox controls at the top. Just like Windows and your favorite apps, it’s available in light and dark theme: The first thing you’ll notice is the modern look and feel: the app layout is less cluttered, the fonts and icons are crisp and clear, and the colors are vibrant. It runs in your default browser, doesn’t depend on any other software or services, and works with all recent versions of Windows Server and Windows 10. The new Performance Monitor tool is available today in Preview as part of Windows Admin Center version 1910, which you can download here. Today, we’re beyond excited to introduce a reimagined Performance Monitor: (That’s right – over 25 years ago!) It’s difficult to learn and time-consuming to use.

The classic user interface for perf counters, Performance Monitor or perfmon.exe, hasn’t changed much since it was added to Windows in 1993. When you need to troubleshoot why something is slow or broken, there’s no source of truth more trusty or versatile than Windows performance counters. Follow him on Twitter the administrator of Windows computers and servers, you deserve the best tools to understand how features, apps, and devices are working. For those who are looking for more features like knowing if a process is safe or not and a better way to kill processes would be better to use another task manager like Auslogics Task Manager.Written by Cosmos Darwin, Senior PM at Microsoft.

It also doesn't do as good of a job at killing processes that some of the other alternatives do.Process Explorer is best for those who want a basic task manager replacement without wanting to install another piece of software on their computers. The only complaints I have with Process Explorer is it doesn't show you which processes are safe and which aren't. It also doesn't need to be installed to replace the task manager like the others do. It doesn't have all the features some of t he other task manager alternatives have but it has the basic features most need. Process Explorer is a good free basic task manager replacement.
