In the previous posting, I covered the installation of Process Explorer and setting things up so that it runs automatically at startup time with its icon permanently displayed in the system tray ...

Last week I finally upgraded my desktop to windows 8.1. Since that time I have noticed that Explorer.exe will often just ramp up to 25-30% cpu utilization and just stay there. It never goes back down.

I am a huge fan of Process Explorer, a free Windows program from Mark Russinovich of Microsoft. It exposes a ton of technical information about what a Windows computer is doing behind the scenes, and ...

In simple terms, CPU utilization is the current percentage of CPU resources consumed by all programs. If you notice that some programs are using more of your CPU cores and hogging system resources, ...

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A mainstay of IT's working class, Microsoft's Process Explorer update is available, with even more PC troubleshooting tools I can’t imagine troubleshooting a Windows PC without Process Explorer. Users ...

The Windows Task Manager is a fairly powerful resource monitoring tool that's more than enough for most people, but it's a bit too limiting for power users. While you can use it in combination with ...

Check out this super-powerful, free alternative to Task Manager, from Microsoft. Windows isn’t just for hard-core geeks or just for novices. Being the most popular operating system on the planet, ...

If run a CPU usage graph on your PC, you may be surprised to see spikes in usage even when you're not running any programs. In all likelihood it shouldn't be a real concern because your computer may ...