Can you feel your PC or Mac running hot? We've found the best ways to check processor temps on your Windows PCs and Macs.

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You can check your CPU usage on a PC with the Task Manager or Resource Monitor apps. On a Mac, you can check your CPU usage using the Activity Monitor app. Your CPU usage tracks how hard your computer ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background running apps could be the cause for the high CPU usage and system unresponsiveness. Learn how to control hidden background apps in Linux.

The main cause of this High CPU and Disk usage issue cannot be narrowed down to a single culprit, and that is malware. So start by running a full system scan using your antivirus software. If you need ...

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 ...