தொட்டு விடும் தூரம்: WINDOWS: Hidden Tools

WINDOWS: Hidden Tools

Windows contains a variety of system utilities that were well hidden and some were buried in the Start Menu, while others could be accessed by commands.

Most of the tools could be launched, easily, through Start Menu, if you know their names. For Windows 8, you should have to select Settings category from the Search Screen.

This post will share some hidden tools of Windows, which were helpful to you!

System Information: This utility reveals the information of system and displaying everything from OS Name, Version, System Name, Model, Processor and so on. To get this utility just type System Information at your Start Menu (or Start Screen).

Resource Monitor: This application lets you view detailed real time information about hardware resources (CPU, Disk, Network and Memory) and system resources (including handles and modules). Through this tool, you can identify all the running processes; especially which process is working heavily on the system. In fact, this tool provides a statistical report of your system in which Task Manager would not doing so. Using this tool, you can start or stop services, analyze or stop running processes and so on. To launch this tool, just type Resource Monitor at your Start Menu (or Start Screen).

You can also get by opening Task Manager > Performance Tab, then select Resource Monitor.

Performance Monitor: This application is monitoring your system and gather performance reports. It helps you to view performance data either in real time or from a log file. To launch this application just type Performance Monitor at your Start Menu (or Start Screen).

Computer Management: Computer Management has variety of tools to manage your computer such as Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, Shared Folders, and so on. To access this tool, just type Computer Management at your Start Menu (or Start Screen).

Task Scheduler: allows you to view and customize the scheduled tasks of your computer. You can also create your own custom scheduled tasks.
Event Viewer: allows you to view and filter system events from software installation to application crashes and blue screens of death.
Shared Folders: displays the folders shared over the network on your computer. Its an useful interface to view what folders are being shared.
Device Manager: (a classic Windows Device Manager) allows you to view the devices that connected to your computer. You can disable them, and configure their drivers.
Disk Management: a built-in partition manager you can use without downloading any third-party tools.
Services: allows you to view and control the background running services in Windows.

Administrative Tools: Computer Management tool also found itself in Administrative Tools folder along with Event Viewer, Performance Monitor, Task Scheduler. To access this tool, just type Administrative Tools at your Start Menu (or Start Screen).

Group Policy Editor: It has variety of settings that were designed for system administrators to customize and lock down PCs on their networks. It contains some settings also for average users to disable the lock screen and skip to the log-in screen directly. To launch this option, just type gpedit.msc at the Start Menu (or Start Screen) then press Enter.

Windows Professional or Ultimate editions only having Group Policy Editor option.

Registry Editor: is a hierarchical database, where Windows OS configuration settings and options are stored. The kernel, device drivers, services, profiling system performance, user interface and third party applications could make the use of registry. To access this option just type regedit at the Start menu (or Start Screen) then Enter.

Advanced User Accounts Tool: provides some options like Manage Passwords, Advanced User Management Tasks etc., which were not available in the Standard Interface. To access this option, press WinKey+R to open Run Dialog Box and type either netplwiz or control userpasswords2 then Enter.

MSConfig: is a classic tool for System Configuration. This tool allows you to control the start-up programs on Windows and customizing your boot loader, which is an useful utility - if you've multiple versions of Windows installed. To launch this utility, just type msconfig at your Start Menu (or Start Screen) then Enter.

Windows Memory Diagnostic: is a built-in tool in Windows through which you can restart your computer and test the memory for defects. If you wish to check computer's memory for errors, just use this utility (not required a third-party tool). To activate this tool, just type windows memory diagnostic at your Start Menu (or Start Screen).