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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 ...

Whether you’re curious about your computer’s gaming performance or troubleshooting, it’s not a bad idea to know how to check the framerate (FPS), CPU usage, GPU usage, and other relevant details about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six years after its initial launch, auto-cpufreq version 3.0.0 is now available. For those wondering, auto-cpufreq is an ...

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 ...

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 ...