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Some day, real soon, something terrible is going to happen... Many
of your Windows 3.1, WFW, and yes -even your new Windows-95
programs are all going to stop running! Your multiple Windows
programs are rapidly eating away at your precious Windows resources
-your User, GDI, RAM and Virtual (Swap) resources to be precise...
You know this, yet there's nothing you can do! You drop your head
and feel a tear trickle down your cheek.
Suddenly you hear a roar from above! Look! Up in the sky! Its a
bird! No, its a plane! No, its SuperMon-itor to your aid. You're
saved!
SuperMonitor accurately tracks the following Windows resources:
User resource
GDI resource
Memory (RAM + virtual memory that SysMeter reports) resource
RAM (physical memory) resource
Virtual Memory resource
SuperMonitor is the only program in the industry to tell you what
amounts of RAM (physical memory) are being utilized by Windows in
general or by a specific program, and what amounts of Virtual
memory (swap file) are being utilized!
But you say that you already use the Microsoft SDK provided
SysMeter program with great success? Well you'll be amazed to hear
what's "wrong" with SysMeter...
SysMeter has a few fatal flaws that make it a useless program:
1. SysMeter only reports instantaneous snapshots of your systems
resource utilizations. Since programs often "grab" many
resources for very short moments in time, Windows must be able
to provide resources for these peak periods. If it can't do
so, your program (or even all of Windows), crashes! If this
resource "spike" is very quick (as most are), you may not even
be able to notice it flash on SysMeter's screen before it is
replaced with the next instantaneous "normal" resource
snapshot. Or if you're like us, you've turned your head away
to record the past snapshot on a piece of paper while this
"spike" snapshot appeared and then disappeared -without you
noticing it...
2. SysMeter only reports instantaneous snapshots of your systems
resource utilizations during "idle" periods of your system.
Think about the implication of this statement! When Windows
isn't idle - its busy running your programs which means your
precious resources are being allocated and deallocated. This
is exactly when you'd want a resource monitor to be tracking
your system so that you could catch those potentially fatal or
"near death" allocation spikes.
During this busy time, SysMeter isn't monitoring your
resources. Only during infrequent idle periods (when virtually
no resource spikes occur), can SysMeter do its thing... Very
scary! Now that you know about the limitations of SysMeter,
will you ever use it again?
We specifically designed SuperMonitor to catch these resource
"spikes". You control SuperMonitor's "sampling" rate. You can
dictate that SuperMonitor watch your system as fast as every
one millisecond ( 1/1000 of a second) to catch even the
shortest lived resource spike!
3. SysMeter can't tell you the resource utilization of a specific
Windows program. It only tells you the state of your overall
Windows environment. This is good information, but not good
enough for SuperMonitor!
SuperMonitor is a MDI (multiple document interface) program.
Each document is a resource sampling session. By running
multiple document sampling sessions and comparing the session
results before and after running a specific Windows or DOS
"box" program, you can precisely determine the resource
utilizations of that specific program... Cool!
Not only does SuperMonitor track instantaneous resources usages,
but it also automatically records "average" and "maximum/minimum"
(worst-case) usages! You can "log" or save these snapshots to a
disk file and then import them into your spreadsheet for further
analysis or even graph them. Of course, you control precisely what
data to log to disk and how frequently to save it to disk. You can
even print your screen's data!
SuperMonitor was written for:
The individual Windows user that wants to keep Windows running
smoothly.
The computer programmer that wants to easily determine the
resource requirements of his/her program under development.
The software development company that produces many Windows
programs and are concerned that they might produce one more
program that when added to the user's Windows desktop of
concurrently executing programs, will cause a resource to be
depleted, possibly crashing the program or even all of
Windows.
The corporate desktop hardware standardization engineers that
can use SuperMonitor to determine exactly how much physical
memory is required to execute their programs before the
virtual memory swap file is accessed. This is important for
optimal Windows performance. Then they can purchase exactly
the optimal amount of RAM memory for their PCs.
SuperMonitor is compatible with Windows-95, Windows 3.1 (enhanced
mode), Windows-For-WorkGroups, and Windows NT (WOW compatible).
To install SuperMonitor, copy SuperMon.Exe, and SuperMon.hlp to any
area of any disk in your PC.
To uninstall SuperMonitor, delete the above files plus the
SuperMon.Ini file that was placed in your "Windows" directory.
(Typically this is C:\Windows).
SuperMonitor is NOT freeware. Only unregistered evaluation
versions of SuperMonitor may be freely distributed as
shareware. Registered (paid for) versions of SuperMonitor may NOT
be shared.
If you are unsure as to if your copy of SuperMonitor is
registered or not, examine the Help-About screen for your
name. If it says "UNREGISTERED..." then your are executing an
evaluation version of SuperMonitor.
Evaluation versions of SuperMonitor are limited to 3 minutes of
consecutive sampling per document. Purchased versions are not
limited in any way.
If you would like to purchase this program, send $39 dollars plus
$5 shipping and handling ($10 for customers outside of the
U.S.A.) for a single user license. Multi-user and site licenses
are available. Upon receipt of payment, a registered version will
be shipped to you. Registered users will be notified of future
versions.
Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 5.0
430 Canyon Woods Place Suite A
San Ramon, Ca. 94583
CompuServe: 71044,542
Internet:71044.542@compuserve.com
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