Articles Tagged “Performance”
13 articles tagged “Performance”, newest first.
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Why Does Audio Drop Out When CPU Usage Is Low? — Thinking in Terms of Buffers and Deadlines
Audio drops out while CPU usage stays low. This explains why from the playback buffer and the refill deadline, why a bigger buffer adds latency, and how to i...
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Why Is RDP Sluggish on a Fast Connection? — Separating Input, Rendering, and the Network
The speed test is fast, yet Remote Desktop input and scrolling lag. This explains why, from round trips and graphics transfer to symptom comparisons and coun...
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Why Does ‘1 Second Remaining’ Take So Long? — How Progress Bars and Time Estimates Work
Learn why a task stays at one second remaining, stalls at 99%, or keeps preparing. Separate progress units, speed estimates, final steps, and UI updates, the...
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Disk at 100%: What Do You Actually Have to Stop? — Telling SysMain, Windows Search, and Defender Apart
Isolate Windows 100% disk usage by throughput, response time, and files. Pause SysMain safely, narrow Windows Search, and analyze Defender without disabling it.
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Same 1 GB, Yet a Photo Folder Copies Slower Than a Single Video — Why?
Why same-size data copies at different speeds on Windows: file count, SSD and NAS latency, ZIP bundling, a create-transfer-extract comparison, and robocopy.
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What Is Windows' Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling? — Does Turning It On Make Your PC Faster?
An illustrated, non-technical guide to Windows' hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS): how it works, when to turn it on or off, why the setting may be m...
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Does Turning Off Memory Integrity (HVCI) Make Windows Faster? — What It Means, How to Do It, and How to Decide
Does turning off Memory integrity (HVCI) really speed up a Windows PC? When it can help, when it cannot, how to switch it off and back, and how to decide.
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WPR/WPA in Practice — A Primer on Investigating "the Whole PC Is Slow" Across the Entire System
Investigate a slow PC or slow startup that Task Manager cannot explain with an OS-wide ETW trace: capture with wpr.exe, then read CPU, waits, and disk I/O in...
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Where to Look When a PowerShell Script Is Slow — Arrays, Pipelines and Matching
The classic causes of slow PowerShell scripts, laid out. Why += on an array is O(n^2), the difference between the pipeline and foreach, turning matching into...
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A Windows App Developer's Primer on CPU Settings: Priority, Affinity, and P-cores/E-cores
For Windows app developers: how CPU priority, affinity, P-cores/E-cores, power-saving settings, and EcoQoS/Efficiency Mode relate to each other, and how to m...
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What Is Windows Efficiency Mode? - The Green Leaf Icon and How to Turn It Off
What Efficiency mode and the green leaf icon mean in Windows 11 Task Manager, how to turn it off, how to minimize it across all processes with power mode or ...
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How to Fairly Compare the Execution Speed of C#, C++, Java, and Go
How to fairly compare the execution speed of C#, C++, Java, and Go, covering measurement design, warm-up, environment pinning, how to read the statistics, an...
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How to Correctly Compare the Speed of Different Program Versions on Windows
A reproducible procedure for comparing program versions on Windows, covering power mode, power plan, thermals, background noise, measurement metrics, and ETW...