pk stuff

While trying to find out why my XP laptop is so screwed up, I ran across these tips from Artem Russakovskii:

Process explorer (technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/…) is the first tool I’d use — what’s consuming resources? And how much memory are we talking about here? Is there at least 1GB in each of these machines, or less? – nedm

I also use Extended Task Manager (extensoft.com/?p=free_task_manager) to keep a little better tabs on what’s going on than the built-in one.

Oh, and lastly, verifier.exe (support.microsoft.com/kb/244617) can help diagnose and troubleshoot driver issues.