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Resource Monitor, a utility in Windows Vista and later, displays information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and modules) resources in real time. [1] Users can launch Resource Monitor by executing resmon.exe (perfmon.exe in Windows Vista).
Windows Vista contains a range of new technologies and features that are intended to help network administrators and power users better manage their systems. Notable changes include a complete replacement of both the Windows Setup and the Windows startup processes, completely rewritten deployment mechanisms, new diagnostic and health monitoring tools such as random access memory diagnostic ...
A new feature added to the Performance Monitor in Windows Vista is Data Collector Set, which allows sets of accounting parameters to be easily manipulated as a group. [12] Performance Monitor plots system CPU activity and offers the ability to add counters as a method of plotting performance, an option different from the ability to view CPU ...
The Prefetcher is a component of Microsoft Windows which was introduced in Windows XP. [1] It is a component of the Memory Manager that can speed up the Windows boot process and shorten the amount of time it takes to start up programs. It accomplishes this by caching files that are needed by an application to RAM as the application is launched ...
Command Prompt Here allowed the user to start a command prompt from any folder in Windows Explorer by right-clicking (native in Windows Vista onwards); Contents Menu allowed users to access folders and files from a context menu without having to open their folders; Desktop Menu allowed users to open items on the desktop from a menu on the Taskbar;
Windows Vista Home Basic is intended for budget users. Windows Vista Home Premium covers the majority of the consumer market and contains applications for creating and using multimedia; the home editions consequentally cannot join a Windows Server domain. For businesses, there are three editions as well.
The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the foundational application programming interface (API) that allows a computer program to access the features of the Microsoft Windows operating system in which the program is running.
The Tile Horizontally and Tile Vertically context menu options introduced in Windows 95 for buttons on the taskbar belonging to open windows have been renamed as Show Windows Stacked and Show Windows Side by Side, respectively, in Windows Vista. There is a context menu option to exit Windows Explorer (Exit Windows Explorer) when holding CTRL ...