Windows comes with a lot of additional baggage, and if your PC isn't equipped to handle the overhead, you'll find your CPU being hogged by hidden Windows services. Not all of these services are ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

In Windows systems, it is possible to disable a core through the system configuration window. Choose the number of processors that should be enabled or disabled and restart the computer for the ...

The Antimalware Service Executable is a program that runs in the background on your Windows 10/11 PC to protect the computer from viruses and other threats. Sometimes it starts to consume too much ...

Some PC users/gamers have reported the issue whereby when they run certain apps/games (especially the Saints Row game franchise) on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, they notice high CPU usage ...

There are so many instances where you might have come across the Remote Procedure Call Service on Windows 11/10. It is always said not to mess with it by disabling RPC. You might have wondered what ...