Correction to text. The Administrative Tools are envoked through the Control Panel in Win2K Professional.

David Nealey 10/4/2001 12:11:20 PM

Great. Another pointless article that explains the features of a W2k application without offering a solution. HOW DO I MEASURE THE PERFORMANCE OF ALL THE COMPUTERS ON MY NETWORK? From start to finish, recommend a total process for accomplishing this task.

Shawn2/13/2001 1:39:02 PM

I too am disappointed with both NT and Win2K performance monitors. For a quick view on some key counters like memory or CPU utilization they work fine. In my job testing an application to recommend HW I want to be able to run the log over a period of time and be able to see a timestamp so I know what the performance counters are when we have x number of users running the app, and how other variables affect performance. I have looked high and low and cannot find any acceptable utility. The ones that sound promising require SQL and or SMS which we will not install just to be able to run a decent log. Anyway this is my 2 cents.

Sandy Tucker 2/8/2001 10:43:38 AM

Performance monitor is the natural solution that most people are confronted with. I find it lackluster in many regards, particularly visually - even compared to win98's System Monitor - which is much easier to see from across the room, due to it's bar graphs (as apposed to PerfMon's line graphs). My hunt continues for a review that offers alternative (pref. shareware) tools - perfmon doesn't cut it if you want it in the corner of your screen... too much real estate.

Nik Trahen 4/28/2000 12:05:31 PM

As a professional who has used Windows NT, for stability and security, since Microsoft released v3.1 I really appreciate articles that are geared towards the users who are running NT 4.0 or now Win2K Professional on a stand-alone computer. I must at the same time say that Windows NT and now Windows 2000 is the only computer magazine that I buy. In the medical profession there are rags published by quacks that aren't worth their weight in BTUs and peer reviewed journals that maintain very high standards; I say with confidence that Windows NT/2000 Magazine falls into the latter catagory and stands high above all of the other computer magazines on shelf. At the same time I must say that there are some highly specialized journals for code-slingers etc. but they are of no relavence to me.

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !!!

Cheers,

PN

PS: The alphabet soup after my name ia there only because the CMPA, that insures me against malpractice, regulations say that it has to go on all corresponce that contains any reference to the medical profession.

Philip Norman Ph.D. OCPCS FRIP 4/2/2000 6:56:35 AM