Ensuring that your system is running smoothly and as expected is important in order to be able to keep doing your work efficiently. Windows comes with a few tools that help you stay on top of these ...

Have you ever wondered if your gaming rig is truly living up to its potential? For gamers, performance is everything—whether you’re chasing seamless frame rates in a competitive shooter or ...

Just how much is ReadyBoost optimizing your system's disk performance? Here's a look at how to use Resource Monitor and Performance Monitor to nail down the specifics. In last week’s post, Is ...

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 ...

How fast is that file downloading, really? Progress bars in dialog boxes are notoriously inaccurate and difficult to interpret. When you're really concerned about whether your network connection or ...

And promises more tools to help identify performance bottlenecks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new Steam update has released ...

If you see Performance Monitor stuck at collecting data for 60 seconds on your Windows computer without any progress, the following fixes will help you. When you find Performance Monitor stuck at ...

For those running Java applications or services, the Windows Performance Monitor (WPM) contains a treasure trove of valuable information—see Figure 1. There are hundreds (or thousands) of performance ...

In the world of computing, Linux stands as a paragon of flexibility and power. Yet, much like a musical instrument, it requires regular tuning to produce its best performance. Through this article, we ...

Linux is now better than ever, offering stability and great flexibility, but one of the reasons I keep running it on my desktops is how much control it gives me over performance. It is not a black box ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...