Background running apps could be the cause for the high CPU usage and system unresponsiveness. Learn how to control hidden background apps in Linux.

Windows 7 comes loaded with an array of visually appealing desktop background images, and many more background images are available online. If you allow anyone to make changes to your computer's ...

One of the huge architectural changes from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X was the switch from cooperative multitasking to preemptive multitasking. Put simply, in a cooperative multitasking system like Mac OS 9, ...

Chrome is notoriously known for using up a lot of CPU cycles, in turn quickly drying up laptop batteries. Its recently released Chrome 57 update is looking to address this issue by limiting the ...

We all know just how much CPU and especially RAM that Chrome can eat up, but Google promises that Chrome 57's background tabs will be limited to an average CPU load of just 1%, on a single CPU core.

Rejoice, Chrome users! With Chrome 57, released this week, your laptop might soon get more than three hours of battery life when you have multiple tabs open. In September last year, the Chromium team ...

Many Windows users have noticed the RAVBg64.exe process glaring at them in their Task Manager while consuming from 20% to 50% of their Windows CPU resources. This is never welcomed and should be ...

Starting with Chrome 57, released last week, Google has put a muzzle on the amount of resources background tabs can use. According to Google engineers, Chrome 57 will temporarily delay a background ...