4. When the Administrative Tools window opens, double-click Event Viewer. 5. Expand the Windows Logs folder and then click the System log (see The contents of the log appear in the detail pane. Figure 23-1 The Event Viewer page Question 1 How many events appear in the System log? 559 6. Click the Action menu and choose Filter Current Log. The Filter Current Log dialog box appears. 7. In the Event Level area, select the Critical check box and then select the Warning check box. Click OK. Question 2 How many events appear in the System log now? 560 8. Click Action > Create Custom View. The Create Custom View dialog box appears. 9. In the Logged drop-down list, click Last 7 days. 10. In the Event Level area, click the Critical check box and then select the Warning check box. 11. Leave the By log option selected and, in the Event logs drop-down list, under Windows Logs, select the Application check box, the Security check box, and the System check box. 12. Click OK. The Save Filter to Custom View dialog box appears. 13. In the Name text box, type Critical & Warning and then click OK. The Critical & Warning view you just created appears in the Custom Views folder. 14. Take a screen shot of the Event Viewer by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 23 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V. 15. In the Windows Logs section, right-click System and choose Clear Filter. 16. Close Event Viewer.
4. On the Task Manager page, click Fewer details. 5. Right-click Windows Wordpad Application and choose End Task. 6. Click More details. 7. Right-click Windows Explorer and choose Open file location. The Windows folder opens. 8. Close the Windows folder. 9. Right-click the Name column title at the top of the first column and choose Process name. 10. Click the Performance tab. Question 7 Which primary systems can be monitored with Task Manager?winodws 11. Take a screen shot of the Performance tab by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 23 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V. 12. In the left pane, click Memory and then click Ethernet to view each option. 13. Click the Users tab. 14. Expand Administrator to display the programs and processes being executed by the administrator. 15. To see a detailed list of all processes running, click the Details tab. 16. To display additional columns, right-click the Name column title and choose Select columns. 17. When the Select columns dialog box opens, click to select the Session ID column and select the Threads column. Click OK. 18. To sort by components that make up the most memory, click the Memory (private work set) title. 19. From time to time, a program or action might cause Windows Explorer to stop functioning. In these cases, you can use Task Manager to stop and restart Explorer. Therefore, find and right-click explorer.exe and then choose End task. 20. When you are prompted to end explorer.exe, click End process. 21. Click File > Run new task.
22. When the Create new task dialog box, in the Open text box, type explorer and then click OK. 23. To view the current services, click the Services tab. 24. Close Task Manager. End of exercise. Close any open windows before you begin the next exercise. Exercise 23.3 Using Performance Monitor Console Overview In this exercise, you will open the Performance Monitor to take a closer look at system performance. Mindset The Task Manager gives you a quick view of system performance, but you can use Performance Monitor to probe a bit deeper (including the use of performance counters). Completion time 30 minutes To monitor various performance counters, perform the following steps: 1. On WKSTN-MBR-B, using Administrative Tools, double-click Performance Monitor. 2. Browse to and click Monitoring Tools\Performance Monitor (see Figure 23-3). Figure 23-3 The Performance Monitor page 3. At the bottom of the screen, click % Processor Time. To remove the counter, click the Delete (red X) button at the top of the Window. 4. Click the Add (green plus (+) sign) button on the Toolbar. The Add Counters dialog box appears. 5. Under Available counters, expand Processor, click % Processor Time, and then click Show description. Read the description for % Processor Time. 6. Click Add. % Processor Time should show up in the Added counters section. 7. Under Available Counters, expand the Server Work Queues and then click the Queue Length counter. Under Instances of selected objects, click 0. Then click Add.