Chromebooks are popular for its dead-simple user interface and bloat-free operating system. Unlike Windows, here you won’t find system tools such as Device Manager, Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and so on. Google believes that you don’t need such tools to check system performance since Chrome OS is not a resource hog. However, that seems to be changing as Google has added a new Chrome URL called System Internals that allows you to monitor system performance in a Chromebook. You can view system metrics such as CPU usage, RAM allocation, and more. So if you want to learn how to access system performance in a Chromebook, follow along.
Open Chrome and paste the below path in the address bar and hit enter.
For more information on CPU cores, click on the hamburger menu located at the top-left corner and click on “CPU”.
Our tutorial will work with all of the following Chromebooks. It is not an exhaustive list and is only here to serve as an example.
Display System Performance in a Chromebook
So that is how you can monitor system performance in a Chromebook and understand how well your machine is running. On Windows 10, there is a full-fledged Task Manager where you can view all the running tasks and also monitor system performance. Here, you don’t have such a detailed view but System Internals is starting to offer some much-needed information.
As for the Task Manager, you need to execute a special Chromebook keyboard shortcut. Just press Search + Esc to view all the background processes and you can even kill the tasks just like Windows 10. Anyway, that is all from us. If you want to learn more such Chrome OS tips and tricks then follow our linked guide.
