Replacement for 98 sysmon? I want to monitor modem speed

There is also PERFMON.EXE which ships with all NT derived systems, I think,
and can do many wonderful things - just enter "perfmon" in the Run box
(that's Start -> Run).


<dave@home.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Believe it or not, I just made the jump from 98se to XP.
> In 98se there was a simple but nice program to monitor various
> system processes. It was called sysmon.exe and one of the things it
> could do was monitor the ongoing download speed of the modem.
> It was quite customizable, and I used it constantly. (I also used it
> to monitor several other processes.) They were all contained in 1
> nice window that I always kept open on the desktop.
>
> The only thing I can find in XP is something called task monitor,
> I've played around with it for several hours, and imho it SUCKS!.
> Without going into details, I absolutely hate it.
>
> Is there another way to constantly monitor modem download speed,
> in graph form?
>
> Is there a third-party addon that can do this?
>
> I think sysmon.exe was great. And this new XP task monitor
> stinks!
>
> Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.
>
> Dave

And FWIW - Perfmon on Vista is improved.

"Andre" <andre@no-email.com> wrote in message
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> There is also PERFMON.EXE which ships with all NT derived systems, I
> think, and can do many wonderful things - just enter "perfmon" in the Run
> box (that's Start -> Run).
>
>
> <dave@home.com> wrote in message
> news:djedu35p398od4q8trhdvb82g9pinor3fd@4ax.com...
>> Hi,
>> Believe it or not, I just made the jump from 98se to XP.
>> In 98se there was a simple but nice program to monitor various
>> system processes. It was called sysmon.exe and one of the things it
>> could do was monitor the ongoing download speed of the modem.
>> It was quite customizable, and I used it constantly. (I also used it
>> to monitor several other processes.) They were all contained in 1
>> nice window that I always kept open on the desktop.
>>
>> The only thing I can find in XP is something called task monitor,
>> I've played around with it for several hours, and imho it SUCKS!.
>> Without going into details, I absolutely hate it.
>>
>> Is there another way to constantly monitor modem download speed,
>> in graph form?
>>
>> Is there a third-party addon that can do this?
>>
>> I think sysmon.exe was great. And this new XP task monitor
>> stinks!
>>
>> Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.
>>
>> Dave
>
>