Ty Pendlebury is CNET's senior editor for TV and home audio, and author of the daily Insider newsletter. He has rigorously tested, reviewed and written about AV equipment for the company since 2006.

The Task Manager in Windows shows overall resource usage by all the processes and applications running on your computer. That way, you can also check if there are any background processes utilizing ...

Windows Startup folder contains the shortcuts of the apps and software that start automatically when you turn on your computer. If you want any program to be launched by itself when you start your ...