Would Process Monitor as described at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx be a start? I've used it in the past to see what exactly the system is doing with slow applications, and left a couple of developers with somewhat red faces. George. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy Sent: 02 April 2009 21:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Web Run As shortcut All, I wish to find some accessible diagnostics tools which report on the following informaiton: 1. Memory utilistation of applications on a on going bases. This includes processes and services. 2. CPU utilisation monitoring of applications same as above. Basically, I have aplications which are taking long periods of times to respond for no reason. So I would like to get tools to identify the cause of th eproblem. Sean