Pop quiz: How often do you need to restart your computer for best performance? Here’s a hint. If you only do it when your machine crashes or needs to update, that’s not enough. Tap or click for my ...

I've used Windows long enough not to panic when my PC feels slow. The Task Manager's Performance tab shows CPU usage, and it often explains what happened. However, it gets a bit trickier when CPU ...

Antivirus protection that examines all the internet traffic in and out of your PC is going to slow things down, Jim Rossman ...

A number of Windows settings can have meaningful impacts on well your PC runs and its productivity performance. Here are my ...

Q: My computer isn’t as fast as it used to be, but it’s not that old. What can I do to speed it up? A: This is one of the most common questions we hear, and the good news is that a sluggish computer ...

Q: How can I tell what’s causing my Windows computer to bog down? A: When a computer starts crawling, most people assume it’s old, broken or infected. In reality, it’s often just overwhelmed. One ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new Copilot ‘PC Insights’ feature in Windows 11 allows users to ask direct questions about their hardware performance and system status. The experimental tool analyzes ...

Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed up a PC’s performance, but PCs tend to slow down over time as they accumulate apps, files, drivers, and other detritus. Even zippy ...

Few things are as infuriating as a sluggish computer. That's been common knowledge since the early 1980s, when the principle of the Doherty Threshold was coined. In a study published in the IBM ...

Q: My computer isn’t as fast as it used to be, but it’s not that old. What can I do to speed it up? A: This is one of the most common questions we hear, and the good news is that a sluggish computer ...