The performance Monitor tool in Windows 11 is a little more advanced than Task Manager. It lets you monitor your system resource usage in real time. System administrators mainly use the tool to examine how programs running on their computers affect the computer’s performance.

Task Manager is designed for regular users, whereas the Performance Monitor is for technical users who want to monitor their system and collect information in a log to analyze it later.

With the Performance Monitor, you can generate a log file of your device’s Performance report. After generating a log file, you can analyze it at a later time. Hence, this article will share a step-by-step guide on generating system performance reports on Windows 11. Let’s get started.

How to Open Performance Monitor in Windows 11

Before generating the report, you should know how to open the performance monitor tool in Windows 11. There are multiple ways to open the Performance Monitor tool; we have listed the easiest one.

1. Click your keyboard’s Windows key + R button to open the RUN dialog box.

2. On the RUN dialog box, type perfmon and click on the Ok button.

3. This will open the Performance Monitor on your Windows 11.

Generate System Performance Report in Windows 11

1. First, click on the Windows 11 search and type in Performance Monitor. Next, open the Performance Monitor app from the list of available options.

2. On the Performance monitor, expand the Data Collector Sets.

3. Now expand the System and click on the System Performance.

4. Next, right-click on System Performance and select Start.

5. You must wait a few seconds or minutes until the Performance Monitor generates the report.

6. After a few seconds, navigate to Reports > System > System Performance.

7. On the right side, you will find all generated reports. You can check the time stamp to know when Performance Monitor generated the report.

8. If you want to read the report, double-click on it.

9. The System Performance report will provide diagnostic details about your disk, network, CPU, Memory, and other system resources.

This is how you can use Performance Monitor on Windows 11 to generate a system performance report.

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Other uses of Performance Monitor on Windows 11

Not only generating the system report but the Performance Monitor tool can also be used in other ways. It can help you check the crash logs, etc as well.

However, understanding the reports of the Performance monitor requires some expert help. If you’re a newbie, you will find using and understanding the tool difficult.