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Hyper-V VM CPU usage monitoring

I'm migrating a number of VM's from one host to another (Win 2012R2 to Win 2016) and am noticing much higher CPU usage on the new host (quite a lot higher). I was seeing this on Task Explorer so decided to use Process Explorer to try and get a…
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Execute a Windows task triggered by registry changes

I'm looking for a possibility to execute a script in case a particular registry key is going to be created or modified. In the Windows Taks Scheduler there is a way to execute scripts triggered by system/application events. But I could not find one…
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Task Manager Processor %

Related to this question: How can a Perfmon "% Processor Time" counter be over 100%? I was manually observing processes in Task Manager when a user reported a problem and the Oracle process was using 80%-95% for a sustained period of time (5-15…
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Is it possible to run a task on the last day of the month using taskmgr?

I noticed you can only set the day of the month as a positive number 1..31 in the scheduled task GUI on Windows (Windows server 2003). Is it possible to run a task only on the last day of the month? (This isn't a fixed day number, e.g. in February…
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Undo replace task manager on R2

I used the option in System Internals process explorer to replace task manager. Now task manager does not load nor does process explorer, but an error for taskmgr gives the path of taskmgr.exe and then states perimeter incorrect. How can I undo the…
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Task Manager Memory Discrepancy

On our Windows 2008 R2 64 bit servers there seems to be a discrepancy between the number shown in Task Manager on the Performance tab in the Memory Graph and the sum of the Memory (Private Working Set) on the Processes tab. The former is…
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How do I know which process is what program?

Task manager shows a list of processes running. How do I find out, what process is what program? Sure the list shows the name of the exe-file, but I want to know the name of the program. Also I would like to be able to get info and manage those…
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The GPU usage provided by nvidia-smi command is very different from GPU metrics from guest OS

I'm working on a project that can monitor virtual machines' vgpu usage. The hypervisor is vCenter, we have nvidia A16 cards installed on vCenter hosts, and assigned a16 vGPU to a couple of windows VMs on this host, theses vGPUs are allocated to the…
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Nagios reports Scheduled Task returns no exit code dtexec

We have SSIS tasks (dtexec) that are executed by Windows Task Manager and monitored by Nagios. Regularly, however, Nagios reports warnings because the exit code is empty (where it should be 0). This appears to happen if the check happens while the…
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Bytes Per 'Interval' in Windows XP Task Manager

In Windows XP, one of the columns for the network tab in task manager that I can add is Bytes Per Interval. So what amount of time in seconds is a 'Microsoft Interval', 1.2? I see there is 'Update Speed', but that is just Low, Normal, High .. Also…
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Aspnet_wp is showing up with a strange name in Task Manager

Instead of "aspnet_wp," AS61FF~1.EXE is displayed, having User Name ASPNET. I took a look in Process Explorer, and indeed, that strangely named process is aspnet_wp. Why would it be displayed this way in Task Manager? Thanks!
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In Windows 2012 Task Manager CPU Performance chart, what do the 2 data series represent?

I've searched everywhere for this. What do the 2 different traces on this picture mean? Is one the kernel CPU cycles? One series is in light blue and the other in dark blue This is an Azure Virtual Machine seen in Task Manager performance tab as an…
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Process listed as 8 character short name in Task Manager

I have a couple of servers with a process that regularly gets stuck. We kill this process with a vbs script that runs the taskkill command (among a couple other things). The issue is that the process name keeps changing. At one point, it showed…
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Too many csrss.exe, LogonUI.exe, svchost.exe and winlogon.exe in task manager

On a windows server 2008 enterprise edition, nothing has changed but recently there are many csrss.exe, LogonUI.exe, svchost.exe and winlogon.exe processes in task manager. Does it mean some remote sessions are active (server has compromised) or…
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High "System" process cpu usage on windows server 2008 r2

Our setup is VMWare Esxi system, running on a dual quad core server with 32gb of RAM. It has 4 VM's running on it, and one of them, our file server, ie experiencing high cpu usage for the 'system' process. It's taking up almost 100% of 1 core all…
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