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Why Does Microsoft Teams Take Up so Much Memory? Microsoft Teams relies on the Electron platform. As a result, Teams needs to constantly load a relatively large number of libraries. Some suggest this is causing the spike in memory usage that many users complained about. Sustained overall system memory usage of 90% or higher across all apps. With this amount of memory usage, Teams should be giving memory back to other apps and workloads. Sustained memory usage of 90% could mean Teams isnt givin...

5 hours ago McAfee Customers to Receive 1-Year Free Gamer Security as Gaming Increases in Digital-First Reality SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, McAfee announced that it will offer a free 1-year subscription for McAfee Gamer Security to new and existing U.S. multi-device security customers. Gaming has become one of the primary sources of entertainment for consumers in the wake of the global pandemic, and with the shift to a digital-first lifestyle, McA...

Microsoft Releases the First Edge 92 Preview Build May 1, 2021 18:56 GMT      Microsoft begins the work on a new major Edge update Microsoft has published another Microsoft Edge Dev build, and this is quite a notable release as this particular testing channel has reached version 92. The new Microsoft Edge Dev build that users can download is 92.0.873.1, so it’s the very first build of version 92. Needless to say, Microsoft Edge Dev 92 doesn’t come with major improvements at this point...

EDITOR’S PICK: Windows Process Monitor Windows Process Monitor is a necessary Windows utility that is used to detect issues with your PC and nip them in the bud. 3 minutes read Windows Process Monitor has very useful and powerful functions. It captures most of the processes and events happening inside your computer. In image shows some events captured. (COURTESY IMAGE) Have you ever wondered about looking under the hood and seeing how computer applications really run? Windows Process Monitor...

Windows 10 Insider Preview adds Eco mode to throttle processes Ewdison Then - Apr 29, 2021, 1:18am CDT Operating systems, including Linux, usually have a handful of processes or programs running in the background even when you don’t even have a single window visible. Managing these processes is an advanced activity that only seasoned computer users are familiar with but there will always come a time when people, especially those on Windows, will need to take a peek at those...

Apr 25, 2021 07:40 EDT with 0 comments Among the things that happened this week, there was the arrival of Linux GUI app support in WSL, a performance mode in Edge, and even the dropping of the Gold barrier of entry for free-to-play multiplayer games on Xbox. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of April 18 - 24. Actual F2P multiplayer While it’s true that some other interesting news surfaced this week, perhaps one of the...

Source: Windows Central Windows 10 devices enrolled in the Windows Insider Programs Dev Channel recently picked up Windows 10 build 21364, a new preview that includes a couple of significant changes and several improvements. For example, in this release, Microsoft is shipping a new update version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux that brings support for Linux GUI apps to Windows 10. Task Manager gets a new Eco mode to limit app access to resources to improve performance, and now the tool displ...

A new preview build is now available for download

A new eco mode allows users to throttle process resources

Microsoft is working on a fix for KB5001030 install fail in Windows 10 build 21364 Apr 22, 2021 06:06 EDT with 0 comments Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 10 build 21364 to Windows Insiders in the dev channel, the build brought quite a few new features such as support for Linux GUI apps, an Eco mode in Task Manager, as well as Task Manager improvements for Microsoft Edge, and more. However, as is common with preview builds, there were also a few known issues to ...