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What data is gathered on both platforms ?
This section lists most of the data which is collected when doing a fast poll under
Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0/3.51.
- System time and date down to the millisecond
- Memory statistics like percentage of memory used, number of free bytes, size of
physical memory, bytes in paging file.
- Simple disk statistics like total number of clusters and the number of free clusters
on the disk drive which holds the current directory
- Process statistics like a handle of the current process as well as some timing
information like the time spent by the process in user mode and kernel mode and its
PID (timing only available under NT)
- Number of millisecnds since Windows was started
- System info like the number of processors, page size and type of processor
- Information about the processor registers
- Mouse position
- Handle of the active window
- Position of the active window on the desktop
- Handle of the window with the mouse capture
- Handle of the clipboard owner
- Handle of clipboard viewer
- Pseudo handle of current process
- Pseudo handle of current thread
- ID of current thread
- Handle of desktopwindow
- Handle of window which has the focus
- Mouse position for last message in queue
- Time of last message in queue
- Handle for heap of calling process
- Window station of process
- Type of messages in queue of current thread
- Position of caret, i.e. means the text cursor
- Timing information for the current thread (time spent in user mode and in kernel mode)
- Minimum and maximum working set size