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This video shows how Windows 8 can improve memory and Metro style app responsiveness. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/17/reclaiming-memory-from-metro-style-apps.aspx

Taskbar meters are incredibly cool but simple applications that add live-updating resource meters to your Windows 7 taskbar. Available on CodePlex as a free download, you get two different meters in the provided .zip file – one for monitoring CPU utilization and another for monitoring memory. Each…

At CES, I was fortunate enough to get one of the first looks at AMD’s new Fusion Media Explorer, a freeware tool which has undergone many revisions over the past year, now transformed into a stunning media-rich application just for AMD PCs. Designed to highlight the power of AMD’s platform – that…

Peter Provost posted a handy tip on his blog the other day that will be useful for anyone with a Vista computer that has a dual-core CPU. In Windows Vista, there’s a setting that lets you configure your PC to use both cores upon booting up (by default, it only uses one). You can change this setting…