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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 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 ...

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 ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

I noticed in win2k that when you hit ctl-alt-del, and open taskman, that a little bar graph appears in the tool-bar on the right that shows cpu usage. That's something I had win98 with another program ...

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 ...

A CPU is at the heart of all the various processes running on your Mac. As such, the higher the number of tasks and instructions running simultaneously on your Mac, the higher its CPU usage. Although ...

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 ...