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Windows 7 factoid: Improved Resource Monitor

Oct. 31, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

One of the coolest new features in Windows Vista is the Performance Monitor. In a similar vein, one of the coolest new features in Windows 7 is the revamped Resource Monitor. Here’s what it looks like:

Note the gray part of the bar. That’s how much RAM you lose by using a 32-bit version of Windows with 4 GB of RAM. Yes, really. (With x64, it’s a tiny sliver.)

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lehenbauer
on Oct 31, 2008
Oh boy! One of the coolest new features in Windows 7 is a revamped Resource Monitor? I can't wait!
mikegalos@msn.com
on Oct 31, 2008
Very cool. I wonder how much of it came out of the tools Microsoft got when they acquired the SysInternals/Winternals people.
johnbaxter
on Oct 31, 2008
Paul had already sold me on 64-bit for my to-be-bought-sometime personal use Vista machine. The grey part of the bar makes the choice even easier.
daveinla
on Oct 31, 2008
1 GB lost !!!!!!!!! Yikes !
fenra
on Oct 31, 2008
What are the checkboxes for?
daveinla
on Oct 31, 2008
I suppose it's for "End Process" but I don't see the button here !
robertsjoe
on Oct 31, 2008
I like the use of the colours on the bad.. um.. they got that from OS X and Apple apps, right?
bettieblu
on Oct 31, 2008
Looks a lot like activity monitor in OS X. It is nice looking though.
oldfogey
on Nov 1, 2008
Ok. last time I'll post it. I swear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid A factoid is a spurious — unverified, incorrect, or fabricated — statement formed and asserted as a fact, but with no veracity.
mikegalos@msn.com
on Nov 1, 2008
oldfogey From the same article: ------------------- The word factoid is now sometimes also used to mean a small piece of true but valueless or insignificant information, in contrast to the original definition. This has been popularized by the CNN Headline News TV channel, which, during the 1980s and 1990s, used to frequently include such a fact under the heading "factoid" during newscasts. In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright uses factoids extensively on his show ------------------- (I'll let you copy that to the other places you posted it.
Waethorn
on Nov 1, 2008
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid" Looking up "factoid" on Wikipedia is cyclic. Ok. last time I'll post it. I swear.

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