ARCHIVE July, 2009

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Internet Bandwidth Usage

July 28, 2009 | post a comment | posted in: Speed Terms

Internet bandwidth usage refers to the amount of received and transmitted data by a specific user or computer across the internet. This is all the inbound and outbound traffic in a computer.
Bandwidth is commonly referred to as network bandwidth or digital bandwidth in computer science and networking and it is measured in bit/s. The more [...]

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Is Windows Performance Monitoring Good or Evil?

July 27, 2009 | post a comment | posted in: PC Performance

There are many performance counters in every version of Microsoft Windows that is based on the WinNT core (i.e., WinNT 4.0, Win 2000, XP and Vista). These counters continuously monitor system performance and deposit the findings in the Windows registry. When you start any performance monitoring tool of Windows XP, such as System Monitor, these [...]

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Tweak CPU Speed by Process Scheduling

July 26, 2009 | post a comment | posted in: Windows Optimization

Does your PC run in a snail-like pace even when you seem to have just a couple of applications running? Then you should take a long, hard look at the processes running in the background. Many of those processes may be used only once or twice per session, but they keep squeezing the juice out [...]