You are a desktop support technician for your company. All client computers run Windows XP Professional. Each client computer has a Pentium III 933-MHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a 40-GB hard disk.
A user reports that about two hours after turning on his computer and running several applications, the computer and applications are very slow to respond and he receives the following message. This message appears each day two hours after starting his computer and running several applications.
You need to find out the most likely cause of this message.
What should you instruct the user to do?
A.
Run System Monitor to see if the % Processor Time counter consistently exceeds 80.
B.
Run System Monitor to see if the MemoryPage Faults/sec counter consistently exceeds 50.
C.
Run Task Manager to see if any processes are continually consuming memory.
D.
Run Task Manager to see if the number of currently running processes exceeds 40.