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Using Resource Monitor to Troubleshoot Windows Performance Bottlenecks Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 15 minutes Resource Monitor is a powerful, built-in Windows tool that lets you see, in real time, exactly which apps and services are consuming CPU, memory, disk, and network...

Out of the box, Windows 11 ships with defaults that favour convenience, energy efficiency, and telemetry-driven features — but those same defaults can make a new PC feel noisy, slow, or invasive. This piece explains six specific settings that are worth turning off (or at least reconfiguring) on...

Over the years I’ve built a compact, free toolkit of Windows utilities that quickly expose the usual suspects when a PC slows down: low disk space, runaway background processes, flaky RAM, overheating hardware, or an aging storage drive. The MakeUseOf piece that started this conversation lays...

Hi everyone, I'm currently managing a Link Removed and I'm interested in monitoring its performance to ensure optimal operation. I'm looking for recommendations on the best tools for this purpose. Ideally, I'd like tools that can track CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network...

I had my old C: HHD drive replaced by an SSD, and moved to D: A new copy of Windows 10 was installed by the computer shop. Although I never used my D: drive since then, Windows 10 reads it upon waking from sleep for a few minutes - even when the drive was disabled and the drive letter removed as...

Hello Everyone, I'm currently grappling with optimizing SAN storage performance on Windows systems and would greatly appreciate any insights or best practices you may have to offer. Here's a brief overview of our setup: We're utilizing SAN storage in our Windows environment to handle a...

I'm having a huge problem with my laptop. Yesterday while playing a video file, Windows Media Player became unresponsive for a good 10-15 minutes. When it came to and I was able to click the close program option. It closed and everything seemed fine. I then decided to restart the system but it...

I'm not sure if somebody else had this problem before, but for me this keeps happening every couple of weeks. It happened for the third time recently. Out of the blue on shutdown Windows says that it's installing updates with the typical counter of percent complete going up. This is weird for a...

Download: Link Removed Watch our review video as Mike Fara demonstrates that a dark bane consumes the world of computers, and that bane is slow hard disk performance. The bottlenecks of disk I/O and disk fragmentation cannot be understated. Tonight, I delve into this world, and come to only...

Improves the logging capabilities of the Storport.sys driver to troubleshoot poor disk I/O performance due to faulty or underperforming drivers in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm having an unusual slow login problem that is very difficult to diagnose. I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop and I have been getting it set up and removing some of the bloatware that Toshiba installs. Over the last few days I...

There's a number of different AV program on the market today, and I thought it could be a good controversial thread to create.. Vote and post why you like the anti-virus, if you selected "other" make sure to tell us the name of the one you're using. I, myself have been switching around a lot...

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Hi Peoples I was wondering if someone here may have some advise on a particular problem that I am having. My readyboost cache is continually re-created everytime I reboot my laptop. Its on a 4GB SD Card and I dedicate the entire SD card to the readyboost cache. I noticed that there was...