Basic Performance Monitor statistics to use

If you are trying to find why your computer is running slow, the first set of statistics to gather are for:

• Memory
• CPU
• Disk

So in Windows, when running Performance Monitor, this is the primary list of statistics to initially look at:

1. Memory / % Committed Bytes in use
2. Paging File / % Usage
3. Physical Disk / %Disk Time
4. Physical Disk/Current Disk Queue Length
5. Processor / %Processor Time / Total
6. Processor / %Processor Time / All Instances