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If your PC is beset with more issues than you can handle, then you should probably try out the Memory Diagnostic Tool. Also known as mdsched.exe, the Memory Diagnostic tool does a thorough test of your memory including RAM checking it for all the errors that might stifle proper functioning.

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This test checks for corruption in the files/registry settings in the Microsoft Office system installation. When there is a corruption or virus or hardware is faulty it will be detected by this diagnostic.
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Network monitor is a computer network efforts to detect slow or failing network components, such as overloaded or crashed/frozen servers, failing routers, failed switches or other problematic devices.
The ping program is one example of a basic network monitoring program. Ping is a software tool available on most computers that send Internet Protocol (IP) test messages between two hosts. Anyone on the network can run basic ping tests to verify the connection between two computers are working and also to measure the current connection performance.

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This test checks try to identify any evidence of a problem with the users hard disk. This specifically tests for errors logged by window system event logs as well as self monitoring, analysis and SMART feature of your hard disk.
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Dxdiag is a tool called DirectX Diagnostic Tool. It is used to diagnose and test DirectX functionality and troubleshoot video/sound related hardware issues. Once you open the program it completes a scan with general information about your PC as well as Display + Sound + Input tabs.

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This test verifies the integrity of the computers RAM.
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It shows a log of application and system messages including warnings/errors and information messages It’s a very useful tool for troubleshooting different types Windows problems.
Event Viewer may provide more information about the cause. For example, an error event in the System log section may inform you which hardware driver crashed, which can help you pin down a buggy driver or a faulty hardware component

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Performance monitor also known as a system monitor is a monitoring system program which was first introduced in Windows NT 3.1. It monitors the different activities which is on the computer such as the CPU or the storage.

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Important aspects of network monitoring:

Monitoring the essentials

Optimizing the monitoring interval

Selecting the right protocol

Setting thresholds

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In the maintenance of file systems, defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the mass storage device used to store files into the smallest number of contiguous regions (fragments).

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The program can be started in recent versions of Windows by pressing ⊞ Win+R

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DxDiag is short for DirectX diagnostics. It is a Microsoft tool included with DirectX and it allows you to view system information and DirectX and show you information regarding your sound and video card. This tool is helpful to troubleshoot driver issues.

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Fragmentation (storing a file in many separate areas of memory scattered throughout a hard disk) commits your hard disk to doing extra work, this slows down your computer. A Removal Storage Device such as USB flash drives can get fragmented. Disk Defragmenter can be used to rearrange data that has been fragmented, this therefore allows your disk and drives to work more efficiently. Disk Defragmenter works by using a schedule, however, it also allows you to defragment and analyse your disks and drives manually.

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The use of Performance monitor is a tool which the administrator which can be used to examine of how the programs are running on the computer affects the computer's performance.

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A task manager is a system monitor program used to provide information about the processed and applications running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer. Some implementations can also be used to terminate processes and applications, as well as change the processes' scheduling priority

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Disk Defragmenter is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations

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The POST (Power On Self Test) is a process that the firmware
(In this case a dedicated BIOS POST chip) performs straight after the computer receives power, this
essentially checks to see if all of the components of the computer are able to communicate and function, POST alerts the user to a potential component issue by three main methods, the first of these would be the beep code system, where the BIOS POST card embedded in the motherboard commands speaker system to emit a certain number of beeps (Ranging from 1 to continuous) each number the ammount of beeps signifies a certain issue with the computers hardware, (an image of the meaning of the number of beeps for an IBM computer is listed down below)

The second method is to flash a  colour on the screen to indicate which error had occured, this system was often used by systems without their own inbuilt speaker

The third method was to have an LED panel inbuilt onto the BIOS POST chip which, when an error would occur, displayed a specific error code

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1. Click the Start orb.

2. In the Search box, type perfmon.exe.

3. Click Performance Monitor.

4. If a UAC window opens, click Yes.

5. Click Data Collector Sets.

6. Double-click System.

7. Right-click System Diagnostics and choose Start.

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Task Manager is a common target of computer viruses and other forms of malware; typically malware will close the Task Manager as soon as it is started, so as to hide itself from users.

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Open Start, do a search for Performance Monitor, and click the result. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command, type perfmon, and click OK to open. Use the Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to open the Power User menu, select Computer Management, and click on Performance.

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This checks the computer to make sure there are no conflicting versions of Microsoft Office that might be causing problems.

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The term POST simply stands for Power On Self Test, it is a diagnostic program built into the computer's hardware, as it tests different hardware components before the computer boots up.
In which, the purpose of it is to check if there is any hardware related issues after being power on.
A Power On Self Test is the first step of the boot sequence, as it doesn't matter if you just restart your computer or if you've just powered it on for the first time in days; the POST is going to run, regardless and it doesn't relies on a specific operating system.

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Performance Monitor is a tool that administrators can use to examine how programs running on their computers affect the computer'sperformance. The tool can be used in real time and also be used to collect information in a log to analyze the data at a later time.

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windows memory diagnostic is a free to use program which tests memory. it is also very easy to use so most people should be able to use it due to its simplicity. the way it works is the BIOS in your computer will test your memory during the post

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This checks for similar or identical issues that have occurred on the sane version of Microsoft Office, then applies those solutions to your current situation.

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Task Manager is a utility that is built into the windows OS. It allows you to do a range of things such as see what system resources processes are using i.e. how much cpu and ram.

Fixing a Frozen program
If a program freezes open task manager and right click on the program and select end process.

Customization
You can customize certain parts of task manager to display the information that you require.

Priority
You can manually give programs and processes higher or lower priority than others.

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Check disk is a command run utility that is used on Microsoft Windows-based systems to check the file system and status of the system's hard drives. The chkdsk command lists and corrects errors on the disk. Used without parameters, chkdsk will display the status of the disk in the current drive.

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Windows memory diagnostic is a free memory test program the bios in your computer will test your memory during POST but the tool is extremely basic, windows memory diagnostic will run an extensive test
to determine the exact point where a stick of ram becomes dysfunctional whether its POST boot or whether its during file transfers.
Pros

The program is completely free to use by anyone
Extremely small download
Windows does not need to be working or installed to use the tool
Easy enough for anyone to use and benefit from
No user intervention required—memory test is completely automatic

Cons

Creation of startup disk and CD image adds extra steps
Will only test the first 4GB of RAM

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This checks the error logs that are stored on the hard drive. It also checks the Windows System Event Log and the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Report Technology (SMART), that is enabled on some hard drives by the manufacturers.

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performance monitor
this is used to view how you pc is performing in real time or from a log file.
this tool can be used to track, trace and configure the data collected so your able
to analyze the results. This tool has the ability to track data at specific points
of the day using a schedule.
The performace monitor shows data forom the pc's
memory
Network Interface
Physical Disk
Processor

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Event Viewer.-

Purpose-  To view an event log for any local or remote computer system.

Why you would use?- To seek any fault or error that has occurred in the computer system

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Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the
network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitoring is part of network management.

Network monitoring systems and network testing technologies have evolved greatly over time, offering more automation, more ways to
test servers and systems, and more ways to alert network administrators, sysadmins and IT managers of problems with the network and internal systems.

Some of these tools are...
Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
Solarwinds Server and Application Monitor (SAM)
PRTG Network Monitor.
WhatsUp Gold.
Nagios XI.
ManageEngine OpManager.
OP5 Monitor.
Zabbix.

Monitoring allows network admins to know what is going on in their network, be it with their WAN, LAN, VoIP, MPLS, and other connections or
the state of various network elements or nodes such as the access, distribution and core switches, routers, firewalls, servers, client systems
and so on.

A network is a collection of devices that are connected and can communicate with one another over a common transport or communication protocol.
Here communication can refer to the transfer of data among users or instructions between nodes in the network, such as computers, mobile devices,
output devices, management elements, servers, routing and switching devices, etc. Networks can be categorized based on the geo area they span as
LAN, WAN, or Internet. Further, the design or topology of a network too can differ based on user and organizational requirements,
such as star, ring, bus, mesh, etc.

Windows based systems can provide data to monitoring systems which then processes and uses the data to report on the performance and health of the
servers, and host machines. The data that is used for monitoring can be collected from a Windows machine using any of the available methods.

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The 'Disk Defragmenter' application is a utility that comes installed on all computers with Microsoft Windows as their operating system, its purpose? To increase the speed of which a file, document or application can be loaded via the reorginisation of the data surrounding that file.

When saving data to a disk, it oftens does everything it can to keep the data clustrered together, that way it's faster to load as they are all right next to eachover; however - this cannot be done so easily when the disk is low on space, it has to begin fragmenting files into smaller sizes so that it 'fill in the gaps' in empty areas of storage.

As a visual representation, we can use this:
0 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 4 2 2 2 2 1 0 4 0 1 2 0 2 1

Disk defragmenter undoes this in a rather simple manner, it takes the scattered data and reorginises it so that it they are contiguous - so that they are together, so our visualisation would now look like this:
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4

This helps as it improves the speed of which any file can be loaded, all the information needed to load said file is all in one place, meaning that less time needs to be spent on searching all over the computer for that data.

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What is CHKDSK?
chkdsk is a simple tool that checks the file system (a certain volume of files) and then checks for the logical and physical errors

What are the benefits?
it's a reliable and useful utility for what it is.
it doesn't take much to be able to run it, you just need to open command prompt and enter a single command, so it's very quick and easy.

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DxDiag is basically a diagnostics tool which allows you to view very specific information about your computer. This information includes things such as the model of things such as your CPU, graphics card and more. The main general information can be found within the 'system' and 'display' tabs. These are the tabs that contain information regarding your computer components such as CPU, GPU, RAM and more. To run DxDiag, simply type "DxDiag" in the windows 10 search bar and you will then be able to load up the tool and use it however you would like to. If there are any problems with your system, DxDiag will let you know about these issues and allow you to troubleshoot the problems.

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Task Manager is a first-party piece of software that allows the user to monitor, manage and start tasks that Windows is currently running.
It allows you to force crashing or crashed programs to close to prevent any more damage to your PC and allow you to use it again. It also shows you how much memory, CPU and Disk Space each is currently using.
it was first introduced in Windows NT 4.0 and has been a staple of the OS since.
When Task Manager is first opened it shows a simplified summary mode but the user is able to view a more complex version of the software by clicking "More Details". When this is done the program switchexs to its more complex version.
The software can be opened a variety of ways. you can press "CRTL+SHIFT+Esc" to open ir or right click the task bar and select "Open Task Manager". you can also press "CTRL+ALT+DEL" and select "Open Task Manager".

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The purpose of MS office diagnostic tools is to diagnose and fix any problems that are related to Microsoft office applications such as MS word and MS power point. You would use this diagnostic tool if a MS application was not running properly or was installed incorrectly as it will run the programme against the diagnostic tool to see if there any problems and will try to fix them

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Disk defragmenter has a purpose of rearranging files which are stored on a disk, in order to increase access speeds.

For example, in order to keep your operating system running with the most efficiency, you could perform a quick defragmentation of your systems files. You should defrag your hard drive about once month, unless more often is required. Defragging your hard drives too often can put extra stress on your hard drive, causing the life span of your hard drive to decrease.

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Task Manager is a software tool that is mainly found with all Microsoft Windows operating systems. It helps the user to see each program and app that is being run at a current time and what percentage of the PC it is using and which part of the PC. For example, a program could be using 1.4% of the CPU. It also shows the performance of a PC, app history, startup, users, details, and services.
The purpose of Task Manager is to

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As the name suggests, the performance monitor is used to monitor the performance of the system- and it is most commonly used by administrators or technicians to ensure that their system is running smoothly, and if there are any problems created by the running programs. It can be used in real time or the data can be stored in a log and then analysed at a later date.

Performance monitor uses the following information to create a full judgement of a computer's performance: configuration information, performance counters and event trace data.

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what is the purpose of check disk: it is a command run utility that is used on Microsoft windows and DOS bases systems, it checks the file system and status of the systems hard drive. it does not use parameters.

how can this tool help diagnose the problem: it repairs/recovers data on the drive if necessary.

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Dxdiag is a Microsoft tool which allows you to view your system information, DxDiag is great for when you need to troubleshoot your drivers.
The purpose: the purpose of dxdiag is so that it allows the user to check the system, display, sound and input of the computer. it reports a detailed report about the DirectX components and drivers installed on your system
How can this tool diagnose the problem:
DXdiag helps us diagonose the problem as it writes a detailed report. at the bottom it says Notes which reports the probelms if any are found but if none are found it says "no problems found"

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An event viewer is a basic monitoring tool that is supplied with the OS from the start. The event monitor logs any major event that happens to the PC a few examples include: crashing, unexpected shutdown and opening an application. Event Viewer is available from the control panel as long as you have administrative access you can access the event viewer.

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is a memory testing application that is free within windows devices; the application is known as WMD and it is used mainly for the purpose of testing a devices memory, to make sure that this is not compromising the system. the computers BIOS will run a memory test during the computers load up of POST; this is basic. and therefore when checking to make sure the issue is not related to the amount of memory of issues within the RAM the WMD software will give the the device a more thorough test. the purpose of this software is to make sure that there are no issues within the RAM or any of the stored that is assigned to the RAM as this can effect the PC and cause issues. therefore, it tests for the health and functionality of the RAM.

the purpose of this and when to use it. is when there may be a storage issue, or the computer is slow; sometimes this can be down to the fact that the RAM is full or compromised - using this tool means that if there are any issues with the RAM the computer will pin point the issue so that it can be solved.

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network monitor records the network activity and looks for a slowdowns or components that are failing and tells the administrator. its used along side network management.

network monitoring also looks for problems caused by overloaded or crashed Sevres and it many send HTTP requests to web servers to see of they are responding  also gathers data like response time, availability and uptime,

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The Windows Event Viewer shows a log of application and system messages, including errors, information messages, and warnings. It’s a useful tool for troubleshooting all kinds of different Windows problems. However, even a properly functioning system will show various warnings and errors in the logs. If there isn’t a problem with your computer, the errors in here are unlikely to be important. The Event Viewer is designed to help system administrators keep tabs on their computers and troubleshoot problems.

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Fragmentation occurs gradually as users change, save, or delete files. The saved modifications for a file are usually stored at a hard drive location that is different from that of the original file. Supplementary modifications are stored to even more locations. Gradually, both the file and the hard drive become fragmented, and the computer becomes very slow as it needs to search in various places to open a file.

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Check disk is a command run utility that is used on DOS and Microsoft Windows-based systems to check the file system and status of the system's hard drives.

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CHKDSK is a system tool in DOS, FlexOS, 4690 OS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. It verifies the file system integrity of a volume and fixes logical file system errors. It is similar to the fsck command in Unix and similar to Microsoft ScanDisk which co-existed with CHKDSK in Windows 9x and MS-DOS 6.x.

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