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 ...

I stopped relying on Task Manager after discovering the hidden Windows activity it ignores.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Valve adds CPU temperature monitoring to Steam's Performance Monitor for gamers to track potential issues. The feature is included in the latest client update with minor patches and is available for ...

While every PC has access to these utilities, the CPU temperature isn't always displayed. If you don't see it in yours, or you're not interested in following these steps to test whether it's there, ...