Windows only: Freeware system tray application Process Lasso monitors your running processes for CPU hogs and reins them in before they take over and freeze up your computer. Like previously mentioned ...

So what's likely the cause of such behavior? A bad driver? Any way to find out which? Clearly, based on how sluggish my system is the CPU is at 65% even though the process window shows only the idle ...

If you’ve ever launched Task Manager only to watch your CPU usage hit 100% and stay there, you may have wondered why this sudden mystery spike in system resource usage occurs. After all, Task Manager ...

If the Windows Event Log process is taking a high CPU, disk, memory, or power usage on your computer, here are the methods to fix the issue: End the Windows Event Log task from Task Manager. Stop the ...

With the latest Windows Release Preview, Microsoft is fixing a problem that has persisted for years: Its Task Manager CPU usage stats didn't make a lot of sense. This change was originally announced ...

Yesterday we noted an Apple Knowledge Base article documenting an issue where Mac OS X spawns a process entitled "AirPort" that can occupy an inordinate amount of processor resources when certain VPN ...