AppResourcesUsageView

AppResourcesUsageView is a lightweight program that displays the resource usage information of all the apps on your system. The tool takes the info from SRUDB.dat, a database where all the aforementioned data is automatically collected by Windows.

While the application doesn’t require installation, you need to run it as Administrator so that you can access the SRUDB database. The interface is old-school and designed as a table that provides numerous details about apps and their consumption.

More precisely, the information includes the app’s name, record ID, timestamp, description, app ID, user name, user SID, foreground and background cycle time, context switches, bytes read and written, write and read operations as well as Face Time.   

It is worth mentioning that you can retrieve all data collected or you can opt for a specific timeframe, be it hours, days or any interval. The tool can lend a hand with fixing various bugs as well as development testing.

Some may argue that you can get an overview of the resource usage and allocation via Task Manager. Although the latter does include this type of data, the truth is that it’s not nearly as detailed as the one provided by the tool.

According to the developer, you can also load the SRUDB database from an external drive or from a remote computer on your network that you can access as Administrator. However, bear in mind that in the latter case, accessing the database is only possible when the DAT file is not locked. Retrieving the non-local information can be done from the Advanced Options (F9).

Whether you are interested in viewing how the resources are allocated on your system or you want to check on a particular app for testing or debugging, AppResourcesUsageView could come in handy.