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There's a Windows Task Manager tab that shows exactly why your PC is slow

The real cause of a sluggish PC is often unexpected.
Ars Technica

"mdworker" process running for user account that is not logged in

Maybe this is a silly question, but I'm not used to doing maintenance on Macs: On this white MacBook, I set up an "admin" account, and an "user" account. "User" is a standard user account that is for ...
Ars Technica

Memory always ~50% in use but no processes running to fill that up

I have 8 GB of RAM and on a clean boot with almost nothing running. I have 50% of my memory used up sometimes more. I thought it was a dead RAM stick so I tried to use one RAM stick at a time and they ...
CNET

Increasing performance by quitting remnant or unnecessary system processes

More frequently than one might assume, application processes under Mac OS X stick around longer than they're welcome. Even though you've ostensibly quit an application (it no longer appears in the ...
Network World

Backgrounding and foregrounding processes in the Linux terminal

Running processes in the background can be convenient when you want to use your terminal window for something else while you wait for the first task to complete. Running commands in the Linux terminal ...
East Valley Tribune

Data Doctor: Constantly running processes sap computers power

Q. When I go to my Windows XP “Task Manager” screen and look at the processes, there are usually 60 of them running. What really NEEDS to be running? How do I know what ones I should end process, and ...