08/30/95 README.TXT for System Activity Monitor (SMON) for Windows 95 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- This version of System Activity Monitor is designed to run only under Windows 95. This version is not compatible with Windows NT, Windows 3.x, Windows for OS/2, or Windows emulators such as SoftWindows. This version of System Activity Monitor requires that the Norton Utilities for Windows 95 be installed on your system and only licensed users of Norton Utilities are entitled to use System Activity Monitor. This program is not supported by Symantec, and is provided AS IS, solely as an information tool. Use at your own risk. Please review this document to install System Activity Monitor. 1.0 DESCRIPTION System Activity Monitor is designed to help you identify and track down what process is performing IO to your hard disk or if an application is doing IO to a modem. This can be useful for finding out which applications are writing to your hard disk and when. This can help to resolve "restarts" in Norton Utility applications, as well as general system speed. System Activity Monitor will display all disk writes on all available logical drives. It displays this information in it's main window area along with the drive letter and the application doing the access (e.g. EXPLORER.EXE). System Activity Monitor will also display activity on any local Modem devices attatched to your system. 2.0 INSTALLATION NOTE: To install the System Activity Monitor you must first have installed Norton Utilities for Windows 95. As a convenience, a default Registry file has been included which includes an AppPath for SMON. A. Ensure that Norton Utilities is installed into the default directory: "C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1." If it isn't, then you will need to modify the provided SMON.REG file. Edit SMON.REG and modify all occurances of the path in the REG file to point to the location where you have installed Norton Utilities. B. From the Start Menu select "Run" then type "SMON.REG" C. The System Activity Monitor is now installed and can be run. If you have problems running SMON, it is possible that not all DLL's were found. Ensure that the SMON.REG points to the correct locations of Norton Utilities. Thanks. -- The Norton Utilities QA Team