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That solved the Resource Monitor problem. Also set me up for some updates from Microsoft! In this whole process, one thing I did learn, installing IE 11 is what kills the desktop gadgets. Uninstalling it restores them.

I have turned off the paging file, since that can be one place for things to hide. Now, if anyone has any ideas on what I might have gotten hit with or what to use to find it, I would sure like to know. Search for:.

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Recent Forum Topics. Who's Online. Map of Visitors. Our Beloved Sponsors. Our Longevity. Call Us! Hey, Google! Please Help. Search Posts. Fascinating Stuff. The Forums Fora? Forum Statistics. The reader suspected that a malfunctioning process was the cause and wanted more detail on using Microsoft Windows 7's Resource Monitor to keep tabs on system resources being used by running processes and services.

While I was able to help the reader out, a comment they made about feeling overwhelmed by the amount of detailed information and the number of features packed into Windows 7's Resource Monitor stuck with me for a few days. After taking a more detailed look around Resource Monitor and talking to other Windows 7 users, I discovered that many folks who access Resource Monitor use it more like Windows Task Manager's Processes and Performance tabs.

In other words, I found that many users are paying more attention to watching the real-time graphs and looking at processes list than using the Resource Monitor's features to manipulate the display and focus in on specific information that could help them troubleshoot and isolate problems. My goal is to help you learn how to use Resource Monitor as a tool that can determine how system resources are used by processes and services.

Once you know more about how Resource Monitor works, in future articles I can then show you how to use Resource Monitor to delve into specific problems, such as tracking down unresponsive processes, analyzing heavy resource consumers, and investigating memory usage.

Keep in mind that Windows Vista also comes with Resource Monitor, but the user-interface layout is different and it lacks the majority of the features of its successor. There are actually several ways that you can launch Resource Monitor. If you happen to be in Task Manager, you can click its button on the Performance tab. Or you can just click the Start button, type Resmon. You'll also see base graphs for each of the four categories.

As its name implies, the Overview tab provides you with an at-a-glance, basic overview of your system's current status. The Network graph displays the current total network traffic in Kbps in green and the percentage of network capacity in use in blue. The Memory graph displays the current Hard Faults per second in green and the percentage of physical memory currently in use in blue.

The first table displayed on each of the tabs is called the key table, and it displays a complete list of processes using the resource associated with that tab. For example, all the processes displayed in the key table in Figure B are specifically tied to the CPU. You can hide or show a table by clicking the arrow on the right side of the table's title bar. As you can see, the Associated Handles and Associated Modules tables are currently hidden. Each table contains multiple columns that display pertinent data.

There is a box after StartUp type. The options are available on a drop down by clicking on the arrow down to the right of the box. Make the change and click on Apply and OK. Click the Start button to check that the service can be started. It is the type of software that interferes with the system unless it is configured correctly and sometimes even if it is configured correctly.

Most of the reports about the firewall I found in Google were about how difficult it is to remove. That suggests that others have found the software problematic. Check that the StartUp type is Manual It's easy enough to set it back to "Manual.

Anyhow this is not supposed to be a firewall in itself but only a control overlay on Windows Firewall that makes it easier to take advantage of the innate but difficult to use capability to regulate outgoing access to the Internet by programs running on the machine.

As such unless I'm blocking something important, which is entirely possible of course it should not be tampering deeply with the workings of Windows 7. Lots of people seem to think it's important to block indiscriminate outgoing communications to help prevent malware from "phoning home.

It's grown into a useful piece of commercial software that is well supported by the authors through their own forum. This choice was mainly to avoid rolling back Internet Explorer step by step to try and locate the point where the "conflict" disappears.

I don't wish to be argumentative, but the bottom line for me is this: If you either a know how to correct 4 or b see some important problem in my logs, I'm happy to proceed. Otherwise I don't want to make major changes to my system like eliminating W8FC on what's starting to look like a fishing expedition. Not sure this is the correct section for this question. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

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