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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...