If you have recently installed hardware, driver, software, or anything else on your computer, and the problem started after that, you can boot Windows in Safe Mode and check if the Startup tab is ...

As you can see on the lead-in image above, when you right-click on the invalid entry (in this case OneDrive), the Open file location option would be grayed out if the executable doesn’t exist in the ...

The Task Manager utility doesn't always provide the information you need to decide whether your system's auto-start apps really need to load each time your PC boots. No such worries with Autoruns.

If you're constantly switching to a different tab when opening Task Manager, Windows 10 now provides an option to set your preferred startup tab. Here's how to do it. When you purchase through links ...

You can find plenty of Windows programs to help cut down boot times, but they’re not necessary. Everything you need to make Windows faster is already waiting for you in an old, built-in utility: the ...

Ever wonder why your computer is slow? Or how much of your CPU, memory, and bandwidth a particular program is using? Task Manager is how you can find out, and also how you can close applications that ...

Every time you start your PC, Windows checks in more than a dozen places to see if you (or, more likely, some program you installed) has specified that a program should start automatically. Those auto ...

Windows Task Manager is a powerful built-in utility for monitoring your PC's performance. Here's how to easily track CPU, memory, disk, and network usage to identify resource hogs. To monitor your CPU ...

Q: I’m relatively new to Windows and want to understand when and where I should use the Task Manager utility. A: The Windows Task Manager is a very useful troubleshooting tool that begins by showing ...

Q: I recently purchased a Lenovo Ideapad 320. When I turn the computer on it is very slow to get going with the constant hum of programs seemingly starting up, running and maybe updating themselves ...