How do I write/use performance monitor to run an action when something happens?

Question

I notice that I get a popup if desktop resources are over-used asking me if I want to turn off the glass desktop.
That's fine.
I've been looking in Performance Monitor for how this is done, as I have a program that periodically runs amok and starts indexing my Documents directory.  I usually start to notice my machine getting sluggish when the process gets to about 1.5-2+GB
in Virtual and working memory.  At that point it seems to be increasing it's network usage rate geometically, and interrups will start getting delayed or lost -- keyboard will lock up for periods, lots of things freezing temporarily (music will get 10-20
second dropouts)  It can even cause a complete system lockup
So what I would like to do is monitor any instance of this process by name ('explorer'), and restart it when it gets to over 1.5GB of usage.
I setup a monitor of virtual size and working memory in the performance monitor, but I don't see how to set up an alarm that starts an action to restart it.  (restarting it will cause the problem to go away for anywhere from a few hours to several days).
I've no clue as to what triggers it.
I found a bunch of XML scripts in
Windows/pla/Rules with names like:
Rules.System.CPU.xml*
Rules.System.Common.xml*
Rules.System.Configuration.xml*
Rules.System.Diagnostics.xml*
Rules.System.Disk.xml*
Rules.System.Finale.xml*
Rules.System.Memory.xml*
Rules.System.NetDiagFramework.xml*
Rules.System.NetTrace.xml*
Rules.System.Network.xml*
Rules.System.Performance.xml*
Rules.System.Performance.xml.orig*
Rules.System.Summary.xml*
Rules.System.Wired.xml*
Rules.System.Wireless.xml*
These have some XML language in them that looks like it woud be for monitorying and doing actions:
  <Rule name="$(RuleDiskSummary)" enabled="true">
   <Step select="/Report/Section/Table[@name='hotFile']">
    <Exists>
     <Otherwise>
      <Delete select="Summary"/>
     </Otherwise>
    </Exists>
   </Step>
   <Step select="/Report/Section/Table[@name='physicalDiskCounters']" fatal="true">
    <Exists>
     <Otherwise>
      <Insert>
       <Node>
        <Summary key="100" find="field" field="counter" value="Avg. Disk Queue Length" topic="diskInfo">
         <Data name="max" label="diskQueue"/>
        </Summary>
       </Node>
      </Insert>
     </Otherwise>
    </Exists>
   </Step>
  </Rule>
 </Group>
 <StringTable>
  <String ID="GroupSummary">Add Summary Blocks</String>
  <String ID="RuleMemorySummary">Memory Summary</String>
  <String ID="RuleDiskSummary">Disk Summary</String>
  <String ID="RuleNetworkSummary">Network Summary</String>
 </StringTable>
  <Rule name="$(RuleDiskSummary)" enabled="true">
   <Step select="/Report/Section/Table[@name='hotFile']">
    <Exists>
     <Otherwise>
      <Delete select="Summary"/>
     </Otherwise>
    </Exists>
   </Step>
   <Step select="/Report/Section/Table[@name='physicalDiskCounters']" fatal="true">
    <Exists>
     <Otherwise>
      <Insert>
       <Node>
        <Summary key="100" find="field" field="counter" value="Avg. Disk Queue Length" topic="diskInfo">
         <Data name="max" label="diskQueue"/>
        </Summary>
       </Node>
      </Insert>
     </Otherwise>
    </Exists>
   </Step>
  </Rule>
 </Group>
 <StringTable>
  <String ID="GroupSummary">Add Summary Blocks</String>
  <String ID="RuleMemorySummary">Memory Summary</String>
  <String ID="RuleDiskSummary">Disk Summary</String>
  <String ID="RuleNetworkSummary">Network Summary</String>
 </StringTable>
Question is, how can I setup it for calling a trigger script when
parameters for Explorer get out of spec.
On confusing issue that stopped me from proceeding, was the time schedule to run the report:
I only allows for once/day. 
I need / want continuous monitorying -- say at 1 minute or 3 minute intervals (5 might work, not sure -- doesn't take long for Explorer to get to 1-2G with a network connection of 10Gb.
So how can I monitor and control it?
A side issue -- I notice a resource-control agent for Win 2008 -- but this was disabled for Win7.
Anyone know why resource usage on Win7 was considered less important than on Win2k8 server?
My version of Win7 is Win7-x64-sp1 "Ultimate" [sic] (it doesn't include professional features like resource control)...
Thanks...This has bothered me for over a year and has persisted through new profiles and reinstalls of of the OS.
I have a feeling it is related to MS disabling Network disks in their indexer, so Explorer ends up doing it as a surrogage for things like the search engine (with the results not stored, because they are not local -- the worst of both worlds?)... but that's
just a feeling...
Thanks!
Astara...

Answer 1

You can create a Data Collector Set (create manually, not template), then choose performance counter Alert, configure alert actions, from the script, seems you want to monitor the “physicalDisk” performance, so you can set the “physicalDiskCounters”
into alert action, please follow the instruction in the link below.
Monitor disk space
http://www.ms-opsmgr.eu/?cat=43
If you want to view the detailed process related about explorer when your machine getting sluggish, I'd like to introduce a tool named process explorer to you.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
It can clearly show you the processes running in your system, along with the hierarchical relationship and the cpu usage.
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