Posts under Performance tag.

What is Windows Rot & how to arrest it!

If you are a Windows user, you know this ! As time passes by your once snappy Windows starts becoming less responsive. The problem is that its a process that just seems to occur over a period of time…without any […]

Auslogics Browser Care: Manage, clean up, speed up all your browsers

Auslogics Browser Care is a new freeware from the well-known developers who have given you Auslogics BoostSpeed and Auslogics Disk Defrag. This new tool lets you manage, clean up and speed up all your browsers from a single window. Sure, […]

Use Windows Reliability Monitor to fix PC problems

Rather than downloading third-party tools for diagnosing and fixing your Windows PC problems, it’s best to use built-in programs, when available. Windows Reliability Monitor in Windows 10/8 is one such built-in tool that can be used for checking system errors, […]

LeeLu Monitors AIO: Monitor System, Folders, Files, Registry, Memory, etc

When different system monitoring tools can co-exist together in a cordial atmosphere, they can improve the performance of a computer manifold and give the user valuable insights about any upcoming issues related to system performance. LeeLu Monitors AIO claims to one […]

Processor Scheduling in Windows 10/8/7

Depending on the usage of your Windows 10/8/7 computer, you can configure processor scheduling, so that it gives you the best performance while using Programs or for Background Processes. You can make this adjustment easily via the Control Panel. Processor […]

Enable, Disable Disk Write Caching in Windows 10/8/7

Disk Write Caching is a feature that improves system performance by enabling write caching on the device. It is a feature, which is available on almost all disk drives these days. The benefit of Disk Write Caching is that it allows […]

Generate System Health Report of your Windows 10/8/7 PC with Perfmon

Most of us take special care to keep our Windows operating system running in top condition. We may simply let our Windows carry out the scheduled automatic maintenance tasks or use some good freeware optimizer software. If you want to […]

How to use Perfmon or Performance Monitor in Windows 10/8/7

The Reliability and Performance Monitor introduced in Windows 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 analysis. In this […]

Disable Accelerator Button in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer Accelerators are specific add-ons running in Internet Explorer that help users complete a specific task in just few clicks. In short, they accelerate the browser performance or supplement it with extra features. It is  a great feature and […]

PerfView: Download Performance Analysis Tool from Microsoft

Microsoft has released the latest version of PerfView, that fixes minor bugs and adds support for Microsoft .NET 4.5. Microsoft has developed this tools for analysing and isolating CPU or Memory related performance issues for application developers. It will help you  […]

Fix: Internet Explorer High Memory Usage

Sometimes you may feel that your computer has hung or has frozen, when you are trying to open a webpage or even while browsing normally. This may either be a site problem or the problem could be high memory usage by […]

Create your own Windows maintenance and optimization tool with dMaintenance

dMaintenance is yet another free tool that is designed to maintain your computer invisibly – but with a difference. You can  create your own custom system tool. dMaintenance runs in background and automatically maintains your computer with its different tasks which are […]

Optimize Windows 10 Performance by tweaking Visual Effects

Although Microsoft claims – and with justification too – that Windows 10/8 is the most optimized and fastest OS provided by them, there will always be tweak enthusiasts and power users who want to squeeze out the last drop of […]

Fix: Your system is running low on virtual memory message

If while working on your Windows 10/8/7, you often get the message Your system is running low on virtual memory, then you may want to try this, to resolve the low memory error problem. Your system is running low on […]

Windows freezing or rebooting due to Hardware problems

Maybe you are facing random computer freezes and reboots! In such cases we have to first find out if it’s a hardware specific problem or a software specific problem. Because system instability can be caused due to both these reasons. […]

Windows computer slow due to high mscorsvw.exe CPU usage

This article explains why due to high mscorsvw.exe CPU usage, a Windows 10/8/7 computer may run slow & what you can do about it. If you open the Task Manager in such a scenario, you will now find a process […]

Does disabling Aero really improve performance in Windows?

Windows Aero, acronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, Open, is the graphical user interface, the module of Windows that processes the GUI and the default theme in most editions of Windows 10/8/7/Vista operating systems released by Microsoft. On many blogs and […]

Analyze performance problems with Windows Performance Toolkit

Microsoft offers a set of utilities that it internally uses, to sniff out performance issues in Windows. These tools which Microsoft uses internally to detect and correct boot issues are freely available today  as a part of the Windows Performance […]

[Whitepaper] Microsoft Office 2010 Performance and Hardware requirements

Microsoft has released a whitepaper document which provides an overview of Office 2010 Performance and Hardware requirements and investments.

Identify programs, features, drivers slowing down a fast start up, shutdown or hibernation

If your Windows 7 computer seems to shut down slowly or start up slowly, or if it doesn’t enter power-saving modes, it’s possible that a program or device driver is interfering with Windows power settings. You can use Performance Information […]