Computer Management is a collection of administrative tools that you can use to manage a single local or remote computer. It combines several administrative utilities into a console tree, and it provides easy access to administrative properties and tools.

You can use Computer Management to:

• Monitor system events, such as logon times and application errors.
  
  
• Create and manage shared resources.
  
  
• View a list of users who are connected to a local or remote computer.
  
  
• Start and stop system services, such as Task Scheduler and Indexing Service.
  
  
• Set properties for storage devices.
  
  
• View device configurations and add new device drivers.
  
  
• Manage applications and services.
  
  

Computer Management contains three items: System Tools, Storage, and Services and Applications. For more information, see:

• System Tools overview
  
  
• Storage overview
  
  
• Services and Applications overview
  
  

Note

• If you are not a member of the Administrators group, you may not have the administrative credentials required to view or modify some properties or to perform some tasks that Computer Management hosts.