Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, who has worked on iconic projects like adding ZIP file support to Windows and the Windows NT Start Menu, revealed how the Task Manager actually reads CPU usage.

People have had a problem with how Windows 11's Task Manager shows CPU usage stats for a long time. While recent discussions have revolved around the idea that the app only bases its reporting on base ...

You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

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HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more. HWiNFO ...

Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. It's modern, has a search bar, and easy-to-understand graphs. But what are some of the lesser-known features of the ...