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Windows Sysinternals is a suite of advanced utilities developed by Microsoft to assist users in managing, diagnosing, and troubleshooting Windows systems. While these tools are often associated with IT professionals and developers, many of them offer functionalities that can significantly...

Containerizing core programs with Docker on Windows might sound like an advanced DevOps trick best left for cloud professionals, but the tangible workflow improvements are immediate—fracturing assumptions about desktop app management and system stability. For years, personal computers have...

Windows 11’s relentless march continues. The release of Insider Preview Build 22635.5305 (KB5055636) for the Beta Channel marks a symbolic close for the 23H2 wave and hints at the next big transition for both everyday users and the Windows enthusiast community. This build is not just a technical...

If you’ve ever struggled with a sluggish computer or wondered why your system seems to drag its feet on critical tasks, you might want to take a closer look at one of Windows’ most underrated features: Task Manager. While many of us know it as the trusty tool for force-quitting frozen...

If you’ve only used Windows Task Manager to force-close an unresponsive application or glance at basic resource usage, it's time to level up your game. Task Manager is far more than just a “kill switch” for misbehaving processes—it’s a robust diagnostic and management tool built right into...

Windows Server 2016: Why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it, I couldn’t figure out why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it as per the screenshots below

I'm not a intel fan so I know little about the Intel side of things but my son has a Q9300 system he simply uses to watch youtube video's & so forth. Anyways he's been having a few problems. At system start up to desktop everything appears normal visually until you try & do things. The mouse...

Hello all, After cleaning out a computer I am still having issues with my boot up time, it takes over 3 minutes to get a workable desktop. it boots up to the login interface fairly quickly, but when I log in it takes really long for the desktop to show and when it does it seems to be busy doing...

I have 4gb ddr3 memory . Ive checked the new pretty task manager from Win8 and I saw upp to 30% memory usage without runing any app besides task manager ofc. I want to ask if is this normal ? Ive took some screenshots for most of the entire taks manager window showing apps , background...

G'day everyone, Just a quick question. I've noticed that when I leave my pc for some time and the screen savers come on, then the screens go blank (my machine doesn't sleep or hibernate) when I use the pc again I can see that during the time the monitors had turned off, the CPU usage was at...

Recently I noticed my CPU being pushed to 100% by a trojan (igfxupdate) though not knowing the cause of the usage I simply tried restarting the computer, though when the computer restarted my CPU Meter was gone. I have now completely removed the virus but my CPU Meter never showed up. It isn't...

I have a serious memory leak in nonpaged pool, which happen to be Irp packets. Here is the whole story. The system is Win7 Ultimate x64 which I primarily use to host some VirtualBox VMs. Around beginning of May I noticed that the box started to lock up and it was rock solid for almost a year...

Hi, I realise there are a million of these threads on here about CPU usage but I have checked several and they don't seem to fix my issue. Basically my CPU usage hits 100% a lot. Usually I am not doing much. Listening to Itunes and using firefox or vlc player. All of a sudden the sound becomes...

Hi All, I've catagorized this issue in "Video" because that is where it becomes most apparent, however it shows up intermitently throughout the day ... mostly when I am doing anything graphic intensive. My System: PC - Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe OS - Windows 7 Ultimate RAM - 8 GB DDR3 VIDEO -...