http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ 2026-04-14T01:02:20+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/lib/tpl/arctic/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-10-09T11:59:50+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex1?rev=1633769990&do=diff 01. [10p] Task Manager Go through the Task Manager introduction and/or watch the video below. :!: Which process is constantly reading or writing to your hard disk? * Open Task Manager and select the Details tab * Right-click on the column header and click “Select columns” * Enable the “I/O Read Bytes” and “I/O Write Bytes” checkboxes * Sort the list by clicking on a column header to see the most read-intensive and/or write-intensive processes * Identify the process and menti… text/html 2021-10-09T12:00:18+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex2?rev=1633770018&do=diff 02. [20p] Windows Performance Recorder & Analyzer Logs.exeGoodLog.exeTask-02 We want to capture the activity of both Logs.exe and GoodLog.exe. To do this we will start WPR and record an execution of Logs.exe and GoodLog.exe afterwards. We will then analyze the results using WPA, concentrating on the Disk activity and compare the results with Task Manager. text/html 2021-10-09T12:01:10+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex3?rev=1633770070&do=diff 03. [20p] Process Monitor Task A - Checking Logging File Logs.exeGoodLog.exeTask-03/Task-A We want to see what is the difference between Logs.exe and GoodLog.exe. After running both programs we can see that the output is identical. Still, Logs.exe takes much longer to complete compared to GoodLog.exe. We will use Process Monitor to determine the problem. text/html 2021-10-09T12:01:48+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex4?rev=1633770108&do=diff 04. [10p] Process Explorer HandleLeak.exeTask-04 We want to check what is wrong with this HandleLeak.exe program (ignore its name :-)). For Task Manager, on the Details tab add the Handles column. Run the program, search for it inside Task Manager, and look at the Handles column. The number of handles keeps growing. This is clearly a problem. text/html 2023-10-21T12:48:49+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex5?rev=1697881729&do=diff 05. [20p] Windows API Task-05 :!: We want to create a simple Console Task Manager with functions from PSAPI. This simple Task Manager will print two CSV tables. The first will contain system information provided by PSAPI. The second will print memory information for any accessible process and their name. text/html 2023-10-30T01:37:03+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex6?rev=1698622623&do=diff 06. [20p] CHKDSK & CrystalDiskMark CrystalDiskMark For this task we want to see and estimate the health and speed of our storage. This can vary considerably and needs to be inspected regularly to see if we need to replace our HDD/SSD. CHKDSK Health Checks CHKDSK is a standard tool inside Windows that allows us to get basic information about our disks. It tells us how much memory we have, how much is free, how much we used. It also tells us if the disk has bad sectors, which can be a… text/html 2023-10-21T12:51:03+03:00 http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/ep/labs/08/contents/tasks/ex7?rev=1697881863&do=diff 07. [10p] Feedback :!: Please take a minute to fill in the feedback form for this lab.