monitoring

I am in the midst of a several-day attempt to track down some strange behavior in Win7 Professional x64. My question today: When I open Task Manager to the Processes tab, the entries are still sorted by the last selection I made (which in my case is User Name). I want to see the processes in...

I generally understand the CPU activity graphs in the resource monitor, with the exception of the first one...the total CPU activity displayed on it at first glance makes sense, when looking at the area shown in green, which is the total CPU activity, but there is also a blue line above that...

Here's a collection of interesting videos and links pertaining to the mass surveillance currently on-going. It all started when The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald exposed secret information indicating that the NSA was monitoring virtually all communication in the United States and in many countries...

I'm having random CPU spikes that I notice because the fans of my laptop start up. This has happened while browing the web, chatting through skype, using photoshop and sometimes while idling even. This laptop is new (a month and a half old), 8GB RAM, drivers up to date. Those programs should...

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A very handy tool! If you want to see what your machine is doing temperature wise or look through any number of system values then this app is excellent. Just updated to version 1.22. Download: HWMonitor - CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting

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Asus doesn't support my motherboard for w8, so their pc-probe-II is not installing on w8 saying "invalid o.s." Funny? right. So, is there any other free domain software that will read and display cpu temperature on my pc on w8? btw, asus has hard-coded "NT-6.0" or something like that in the...

The bitter truth of realizing the latency (delay) in the monitoring of line in/microphone inputs in Windows Vista/7/8 is being regarded as the most unsolved mystery in the windows audio environment. This accounts for all those musicians (like me and other people who were enjoying music through...

Hello, I'm looking for a reliable system resource monitor that stays on the desktop. I don't want to use any gadgets due to the security problem with the gadget platform. Any suggestions? Oddly enough, googling what I'm looking for isn't helping.

So I'm no parent or anything and I can't give details but we got a foster child in the house now who has to be closely monitored using the computer. As most of us know you don't want to sit there and monitor your child while they use the computer, you got better things to do, right? Well for me...

I purchased my computer , (Toshiba Satellite L505 64 bit system ) two years ago , and I have been told they are good for approximately 50,000 hours before trouble may start . First is there any truth to this ? Secondly , is there a way I can check the number of hours on my computer .? I...

Fixes an issue in which it takes longer than expected to collect performance data when you use Performance Monitor or a PDH function. Additionally, CPU usage is higher than expected while Performance Monitor or the PDH function collects the data. More...

Hello which program is the best to use for my OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD so i can watch the lifetime of my solid state drive? I found this SSDLife download page - freeware, professional and portable version downloads. but im not sure if its good.Can you suggest some useful tools like the one above?

Fixes an issue in which SNMP services returns no attributes for a PID when you monitor some services by using SNMP services on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

(This pertains to windows 7) As title really, is it possible for a threat loaded from something like a web page or something else, to inject malicious dll's into existing legitimate windows processes ? And when i say existing processes i mean the processes and type of stuff that most people...

The CPU diagnostic application CPU-Z is now compatible with Windows 8. The current version of 161.1 can be downloaded here: CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting Changelog:

Link Removedhas published an interesting video that shows the global activity of computers that are unknowing participants in a botnet. The activity was recorded on Monday, June 11, 2012, between 9:00 and 9:01 EDT.