The Best Bottleneck Calculators For Windows – SlashGear

There are some great third-party bottleneck calculator options which rely on downloaded software or web-based tools, but you can get most if not all of the information you need from the Task Manager already installed on your machine.

The most common use of the Task Manager is to kill a program that’s giving you trouble. In that scenario, you already know what the offending process is, and just need to shut it down, so you’re probably not paying much attention to the peripheral information the Task Manager provides. There are a few ways to get to the Task Manager. Hitting Ctrl + Alt + Delete takes you to a menu with the Task Manager listed. You can also hit Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time to go directly there on most computers.

Once open, you’ll see a list of tasks trailing down the left side of the window. The nearby columns tell you the CPU, memory, disk, and network usage of each individual process. It also gives you a summary of the total load at the top of the screen. You may need to select “More details” to load that information. To find out if you have a bottleneck, open the Task Manager, then open something resource-heavy, like a video game. Let the game run in the background and switch back to the Task Manager. If any of the usage parameters hit 100%, that means the associated component is maxed out, pointing to a bottleneck.