The Performance Monitor is a good built-in tool that lets you monitor and study how applications you run affect your computer’s performance, both in real-time and by collecting log data for later ...

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 ...

CPU monitoring utilities have a reputation problem, and it is not about accuracy so much as the junk that often rides along with them. In a landscape crowded with ad-supported dashboards and bloated ...

At a glance, AppControl might just look like a pretty reskin, but under the hood it does all the things we wished Task Manager could do.

While every PC has access to these utilities, the CPU temperature isn't always displayed. If you don't see it in yours, or you're not interested in following these steps to test whether it's there, ...

RealTemp is a popular CPU temperature monitoring application that reports the minimum and maximum temperatures for each CPU core. The free program is reliable, quick and accurate and is supported by ...

If you can figure out what process is tying up the CPU by studying Task Manager, you're pretty smart. If you've replaced Task Manager with Process Explorer 11 (Free, ) you're even smarter. Sometimes, ...

Valve adds CPU temperature monitoring to Steam's Performance Monitor for gamers to track potential issues. The feature is included in the latest client update with minor patches and is available for ...