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Windows 10: Find out the exact reason for an unresponsive application

I am recently facing randomly unresponsive applications. I would like to exactly pinpoint / debug the reason that causes the application to hang. CPU utilization is low, memory usage is normal. So I ...
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Process ram use counting for more than it should be (*not* another post about why a lot of ram is always being used)

I am experiencing something strange regarding RAM usage in Windows 10 64-bit. Currently my task manager is listing the 917 MB of RAM being used by my internet browser as 40% of my total installed RAM ...
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Windows 8 extremely high disk usage and slow IO

Problem After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Professional, there seem to be a few disturbing problems. When I have the Task Manager open, I sometimes notice the disk usage climbing to 50, 75,...
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CPU and HD degradation on sourced based Linux distribution

I was wondering for a long time if source based Linux distributions, like Gentoo or Funtoo are "destroying" your system faster than binary ones (like Fedora or Debian). I'm talking about CPU and hard ...
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Spurious high disk IOrate alerts from remote server

I have a server running on linode. The server is a headless Ubuntu 10.0.4 64 bit installation. I have recently started getting high disk I/O alerts from the server. As far as I know, nothing much has ...
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