While Windows' built-in Task Manager is great for the occasional resource check, it's not something you can easily monitor all day long. For that, we recommend Rainmeter, the best darn system monitor ...

Whenever the fans in my MacBook Pro suddenly rev up, I use the built-in Activity Monitor app (Applications > Utilities) to see what’s going on. But I’ve often wished for a quicker and easier way to ...

If you want to understand the status of your server or PC in real time, there is an open source system monitoring tool called ' Glances ' that allows you to check not only processes and CPU resources, ...

StatsBar 1.4 has a slick and easy-to-digest interface for monitoring your system’s components. You can set a hotkey that brings up the StatsBar display whenever you ...

Your CPU is the brains of the operation when it comes to your computer, but unlike with your own brain, we can get an exact measure of how much processing capacity is in use at any given time. Whether ...

High CPU activity on a Mac can be fixed by identifying resource-hungry apps in Activity Monitor and quitting them, disabling unnecessary startup items, uninstalling unused apps, restarting the Mac, ...

I've always used Windows Task Manager to troubleshoot my computer when it's slow. I’ll open it and stare at the CPU or memory bars, hoping to find the problem. However, at times, everything looked ...

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 ...