While you can open up Windows' Task Manager at any time to see how much CPU a program is using, it's harder to watch that specific program's usage over time. Average CPU Cycles is a small, portable ...

The Folding@home distributed computing project is now utilizing donated CPU cycles to research the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus. Folding@home is a project founded by Pande Lab at Stanford University ...

The annual Usenix security symposium is a gathering place for all kinds of ideas: those on how to stop security flaws and those about what kinds of new security issues may emerge in the future. A neat ...

Hi, I just reformatted my hard drive a couple months ago, when my computer was getting slow enough I was thinking of just packing it in and getting a new one. With the reformat, everything is so silky ...

Application performance has for long been an important aspect and depends on many factors. While building applications, you might need to monitor its performance (resource consumption or usage over a ...

If one of your PCs fails to boot properly -- or is stuck in an endless boot cycle -- accessing Windows and your files may seem impossible. Troubleshooting and repairing a PC that reboots constantly ...

Processors Best CPU for gaming in 2025: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind Hardware PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in ...

While we're not recommending to average users to disable the built-in search functionality, if you really don't use it, you could save yourself some CPU cycles by getting rid of it. Over at How-To ...