Some people have wondered why Disk Utility shows a 25-35MB/sec transfer rate when the hard drive installed on the system is a SATA II device that has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 300MB/sec.

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

Activity Monitor is Mac OS's process manager, similar in function to Windows Task Manager. In this utility you can see every process running on your computer, how much memory it is using, stop ...

Slow hard drive speeds can affect your company's ability to run programs, process files and render video. Checking your hard disk periodically can help to assess the condition of your computer and ...

Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look past the information ...

Sometimes, your Windows computer may be running slow, even when you have a pretty good CPU configuration. It happens when your computer spends the resources to do some other task. To solve this ...

Just how much is ReadyBoost optimizing your system's disk performance? Here's a look at how to use Resource Monitor and Performance Monitor to nail down the specifics. In last week’s post, Is ...

Here’s an amazingly simple Tuesday tip concerning Activity Monitor (in the Applications -> Utilities folder). As you may know, you can use Activity Monitor to quit a stuck application, examine CPU ...

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