Re: what's taking up room and resources?

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:29:48 -0400, Saudades wrote:

> Hi
>
> Can anyone tell me which utilities to use to determine:
>
> 1) How much of my system's resources are in use at a given time, and
> what's using them?
>
> and
>
> 2) How much room each of my programs/files are taking up on the hard
> drive?
>
> Thanks!
> s.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> "We never really know too much. We really need to be humble about that.
> But we do get to know certain things, and we have to do the best with them.
> ---Sonny Rollins, 2005

Not sure what kind of resources you're looking to track as XP is very
generous with resource heaps. However, task manager can show a wide variety
of detail about loaded processes. With Task Manager open, click on View>
Select Columns... and choose from a long list of measures.

When a program installs, the main portion of the program will reside in the
program's folder. Some portions will be shuttled off to the Common Files
folder and perhaps a bit in Windows or one of the Windows folders. User
data might be stored in any number of locations including, but not limited
to, one of the Application Data folder under \Document and
Settings\<username>\. Because of the multiple possible locations, getting
an accurate tally is difficult. However, by right clicking the program's
folder and selecting "Properties" you can get a report of the total size
and total size on disk for the main portion of the program.

Windows reports numbers only. If you want something a little more visual -
pie charts and graphs - there are third party tools that can illustrate
disk usage. An example is Disk Recon found here:
http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/


--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
.

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