How to find the system resource amount used by programs?

I need to find out how much resourse the programs on my machine are using. active and background. mostly i am concerned with the security stuff. (AVAST!,COMODO BOClean,and NAVIDA Active Armour Firewall) plus B-squared Anti-malware, My operating system is WinXP prof. Is there a built in utility?

How to find the system resource amount used by programs?free spyware remobal

A quick easy way to get to Task Manager is to right-click on the clock in the system tray and choose it from the list.

Then choose the Processes tab to see all the services running on your computer and the amount of memory and CPU used.

A good trick to see which processes are using the CPU the most is to sort by CPU so that the processes that are using the CPU will bubble to the top.

You can end processes to clear up resources but they will likely be loaded again when you restart. Most processes can be ended without any real harm, the ones that you shouldn't stop will tell you if you try.

Good Luck!

How to find the system resource amount used by programs?kawasaki

Use Task Manager, go to Processes, find the corresponding process and check the utilization.
type Ctrl, Alt, Delete all at the same time select task manager if nessesary and go to processes it tells you what is running and how much memory it's useing, now you will need to remeber that these are not going to be program names but the EXE file that is actualy running for the program to work