Maybe this is a silly question, but I'm not used to doing maintenance on Macs: On this white MacBook, I set up an "admin" account, and an "user" account. "User" is a standard user account that is for ...

I have 8 GB of RAM and on a clean boot with almost nothing running. I have 50% of my memory used up sometimes more. I thought it was a dead RAM stick so I tried to use one RAM stick at a time and they ...

Running processes in the background can be convenient when you want to use your terminal window for something else while you wait for the first task to complete. Running commands in the Linux terminal ...

Google Android 2.x has a built-in utility for viewing system processes and running apps, but it doesn’t necessarily show everything that’s running on your phone at any given moment. Task Identifier, ...

One of the simplest ways to run a command in the background is by appending an ampersand (&) at the end of the command. This method instructs the shell to execute the command as a separate background ...

Process Explorer, part of the Sysinternals Suite, is a powerful alternative to Windows Task Manager. It provides detailed ...

Bloomberg’s Python Infrastructure team supports the more than 3,000 Bloomberg engineers who write Python code. The team provides critical infrastructure to ensure that every one of our developers has ...

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems have become increasingly efficient at detecting typical process injection attempts that invoke a combination of application programming interfaces to ...

Q. When I go to my Windows XP “Task Manager” screen and look at the processes, there are usually 60 of them running. What really NEEDS to be running? How do I know what ones I should end process, and ...