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Sometimes, your Windows computer may be running slow, even when you have a pretty good CPU configuration. It happens when your computer spends the resources to do some other task. To solve this ...

CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along with them. In a landscape crowded with ad-supported dashboards and bloated ...

I didn't expect a server monitor this small to be genuinely useful.

High CPU usage on a business computer leads to sluggish performance as there is not enough processing power to run all the programs you have active simultaneously. You can lower CPU usage by closing ...

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 ...

Q: How do you determine CPU usage in Java? A: So, here is the good news and the bad news. The bad news is that programmatically querying for CPU usage is impossible using pure Java. There is simply no ...

If you rely on a MacBook Pro as your business desktop replacement or mobile computing companion, you may want to keep an eye on your system's CPU usage to diagnose a system slowdown or see which ...

While Windows' built-in Task Manager is great for the occasional resource check, it's not something you can easily monitor all day long. For that, we recommend Rainmeter, the best darn system monitor ...

RealTemp is a popular CPU temperature monitoring application that reports minimum and maximum temperatures from each CPU core. The free program is reliable, quick and accurate and is supported by ...