Taskbar Meters These handy monitors are pinned in your Taskbar and show the amount of resources being used. There are three meters for CPU utilization, Memory usage, and Disk IO. You can configure the Update frequency and percentage of Red and Yellow states for each monitor. The CPU Meter shows the...

While I understand that the Windows Experience Index is not the most accurate measure of a computers’ performance, I was surprised to see my memory performance improve when I upgraded my laptop from 4 GB of RAM to 8 GB of RAM.  Here are the two screen shots: Memory operations per second with...

At just a month since the last refresh of Windows Sysinternals, Microsoft has introduced a new update designed to kick up a notch a few components of the collection of tools developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. According to Curtis Metz, program manager, Microsoft Sysinternals, the latest...

Unfortunately, this particular Firefox update included a change that broke the ability of 3rd party applications, such as SuperPreview, to embed Firefox on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Those affected by this issue will see the error text:  ”Attempted to read or write protected memory. ...