Your Questions About Performance Management Tools

Nancy asks…
Accounting?
If you had been hired to assess the overal health and performance of a major grocery store change, what management tools will you use to make a thorough assessment about the health and performance of this company? What are the most important managerial and financial accounting skills need for your assessment?
admin answers:
All you need is access to all their records. It will be obvious where the problems are..

George asks…
Disk partition help!!!?
I have a laptop and I am trying to partition my hard drive. When I went to start/control panel/performance and maintnence/administrative tools/computer management. I went there and I wanted to do a partition. On my other computer there is this little rectangle at the bottom and there is two parts. One says "unallocated something" and then the hard drive. On my laptop, it only shows my hard drive. How do I partition and how do i make the unallocated part. Because when i went to my other computer and right clicked on unallocated thing, it said "new partition". How do i get the unallocated part on mine?????? Mine doesn't have it!!! Please just tell me how to get the unallocated part on mine???!!!
Also, on that computer, it only allowed me to have 55mb on that partition, I want to have like, 20 or 30 gigabytes on it!! If you can give directions or give me a WORKING link, i will give you BEST ANSWER. Just please help???!!!
admin answers:
What you're seeing is that your laptop has only ONE hard drive in it, and the ENTIRE hard drive is already allocated to existing partitions. So you cannot partition your hard drive again without losing everything or getting some special software like PartitionMagic

Betty asks…
Is this right? Laptop power settings?
I was playing around with my laptop power settings today when I notice on acers power management tool thingy that apparantly the graphical performance was better when it was set to 'balanced' than it is on 'high performance'.
On high performance it states graphical performance as 'high' and on balanced as maximum. I mainly run my laptop plugged into a power supply anywho so I figured i'd get the best gaming performance running on high performance... but it seems I'd be better playing games on balanced, is that right?
Seems weird.
I think so far you guy's have managed to miss the point, on balanced it claimed I'll be getting better performance from my graphics card than on high performance.
High performance is the one which uses more power, balanced is lower, but it claims to sport higher performance on my graphics card.
Also I'm fine on system memory, 4GB DDR3 on my laptop and I'm only less than half of that at all times, so I think I'm light leaving epower management settings running for the time being.
Thanks James K. I've been wondering for a long while why my laptops performance was off and I guess I must have accidently changed it somehow, anyway I restored it to default on the acer power management. The performance difference between high and maximum is massive, before I could only run Racedriver GRID on low, and even then I had framerate issues, now I'm on medium high with no problems whatsoever.
Thanks a lot.
admin answers:
It's because your settings have been altered at some point while in one or more of those modes. It should be best across the board on High, average on Balanced, and least performance / maximum power saving on Low. There is a way to change these back using the Acer software, but I've uninstalled mine so am not sure how to do it that way. I can, however, point you to the Windows settings which will change them back to the way they should be so that high is best, etc.
Go to Control Panel, Power Options. By clicking on each plan, you can either customise it, or reset it to the default values.

Carol asks…
How come i cant use Disk Drefrag?
For some reason, i cant use any "Microsoft management console" stuff. Everytime i try to open administrative tools like Disk Defrag or Performance, i get an error window that syas, "MMC cannot open file C:WINDOWSsystem32dfrg.msc.
This may be because the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file."
this has never happened before. What can i do to use disk defrag? any help would be appreciated. Thank You
admin answers:
Is your Windows legitimate? If you are not sure, you can check it out here:
Is your Microsoft Software Legitimate?
Http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/en/prepurchase.mspx
You say you try to open "administrative tools." In my version of Windows Disk Cleanup,Scandisk, and defrag are in:
Start
Programs
Accessories
System Tools
You may have to uninstall Windows and reinstall. Be sure to copy your files to a backup CD, flashdrive, or external hard drive first.

Mandy asks…
WHICH OF THESE FILES/PROGRAMS CAN BE DELETED FROM MY HARD DRIVE TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE?
I Run disk cleanup daily along with disk de-fragment on the weekly basis to keep my computer as clean as possible yet still i haven't gotten alot of free space remaining on my Hard Drive. Here is a list of programs and features through the control panel.
1- ABBYY FINEREADER 6.0 SPRINT
2-ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 10 ACTIVE-X
3-ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 10 PLUGIN
4-AGERE SYSTEMS HDA MODEM
5-HP SMART WEB PRINTING
6-INTEL(R) GRAPHICS MEDIA ACCELERATOR DRIVER
7-JAVA 6 UPDATE 20
8-JAVA 6 UPDATE 22
9-MICROSOFT.NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 SP1
10-MICROSOFT OFFICE XP PROFESSIONAL FRONTPAGE
11-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005
12-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO EXPRESS
13-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER NATIVE CLIENT
14-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER SETUP SUPPORT FILES (ENGLISH)
15-MICROSOFT SQL SERVER VSS WRITER
16-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 ATL UPDATE KB973923
17-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 REDISTRIBUTABLE
18-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 REDISTRIBUTABLE X86 9.0
19-MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2005 REDISTRIBUTABLE X86 9.0
20-MICROSOFT WSE 2.0 SP3
21-MICROSOFT WSE 3.0 RUNTIME
22-MOZILLA FIREFOX (3.0.1)
23-MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB936181)
24-MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB941883)
25-MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)
26-NUANCE PDF READER
27-REALTEK HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO DRIVER
28-VISUAL STUDIO TOOLS FOR THE OFFICE SYSTEM 3.0 RUNTIME
29-VLC MEDIA PLAYER 0.9.2
30-WILD TANGENT WEB DRIVER
I NUMERED THESE SO IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE EASIER FOR MEMBERS TO REFERNCE WHICH FILES OF PROGRAMS COULD BE DELETED.
10 POINTS WILL BE QUICKLY GIVEN TO THE ANSWER WHICH IS THE MOST HELPFUL (AND DOESNT MESS MY COMPUTER UP) LOL
admin answers:
None of these are "trialware" so don't uninstall any.Some run along side your operating system and browser and if you uninstall them,no PC. You can uninstall #'s 1 and 5 and there should be no effect. If you don't use Microsoft Office,then uninstall it.You need a good cleaner.The utilities in the XP operating system just don't cut it;neither does the defrag.Try CCleaner.Run both the cleaner and registry cleaner in it's default settings.For a better defrag,try either SmartDefrag or Auslogics Defrag.All these are available through CNET at http://www.download.com
You also need to run the Disk Check utility built into the operating system.
To get to it:
1 click on Start
2 click on Run
3 type CHKDSK in the searchbox and click OK
4 let the program run until it's complete and closes by itself.
This will help straighten up any issues in the operating system and can help improve speed.
You usually clean,run the Disk Check utility,then defrag.
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