Scott Lowe provides an overview of disk-related metrics in the Windows Resource Monitor. Find out you can use the tool to troubleshoot CPU performance issues. In part one of my four-part series on the ...

The Performance Monitor is a good built-in tool that lets you monitor and study how applications you run affect your computer’s performance, both in real-time and by collecting log data for later ...

While you can open up Windows' Task Manager at any time to see how much CPU a program is using, it's harder to watch that specific program's usage over time. Average CPU Cycles is a small, portable ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

PC bottleneck detection is made simple using Windows tools to find CPU, GPU, RAM, or storage limits and fix slow PC ...

If you can figure out what process is tying up the CPU by studying Task Manager, you're pretty smart. If you've replaced Task Manager with Process Explorer 11 (Free, ) you're even smarter. Sometimes, ...

Unlock the full potential of Windows 11 Resource Monitor with expert tips. Learn how to monitor CPU, memory, disk, and ...

If there's any shared pastime amongst PC enthusiasts, it's keeping tabs on our hardware. Questions about CPU, GPU, and memory usage tend to keep us up at night, and we want to know if our system is ...

Hardcore computer users would want to keep track of what is happening with the hardware inside of their devices. Windows makes this possible by default, but things are not as advanced as some of us ...

There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...