The Folding@home distributed computing project is now utilizing donated CPU cycles to research the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus. Folding@home is a project founded by Pande Lab at Stanford University ...

While you can open up Windows' Task Manager at any time to see how much CPU a program is using, it's harder to watch that specific program's usage over time. Average CPU Cycles is a small, portable ...

The annual Usenix security symposium is a gathering place for all kinds of ideas: those on how to stop security flaws and those about what kinds of new security issues may emerge in the future. A neat ...

Hi, I just reformatted my hard drive a couple months ago, when my computer was getting slow enough I was thinking of just packing it in and getting a new one. With the reformat, everything is so silky ...

If one of your PCs fails to boot properly -- or is stuck in an endless boot cycle -- accessing Windows and your files may seem impossible. Troubleshooting and repairing a PC that reboots constantly ...

While we're not recommending to average users to disable the built-in search functionality, if you really don't use it, you could save yourself some CPU cycles by getting rid of it. Over at How-To ...