In the latest update to Windows 11 24H2—patch KB5058411 which rolled out earlier in May—Microsoft made a quiet change to how Task Manager calculates CPU usage in the “Processes” tab, reports Windows ...

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 ...

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Windows 11 is getting a change to avoid confusion around different reports of CPU usage levels in Task Manager This is just ...

Microsoft has released the KB5064081 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes thirty-six new features or changes, with many gradually rolling out. These updates include new Recall ...

I have an i7 running Windows 7 64 bit. When I built it it would show 8 CPU graphs in task manager. Now, I have not been in there lately, but was encoding a video yesterday and turned it on to see how ...

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I work IT for a US university, and I've got a call from a professor who seems convinced that her machine is "only running on one core". She claims that when she uses MATLAB, task manager shows it ...