Task Manager on Windows 11 showing high CPU usage sorted by process

Windows 11 High CPU Usage: How to Find and Fix the Cause

29 September, 2026 30 September, 2026

Short answer Windows 11 high CPU usage is almost always one identifiable process, not the system as a whole. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, click the CPU column to sort, and watch for thirty seconds. The usual culprits are Windows Update, Windows Search, antivirus scans, browser tabs and startup apps, and all of those […]

Windows 11 Task Manager showing disk usage at 100 percent after a system update

Windows 11 Running Slow After an Update? How to Fix It

14 July, 2026 7 September, 2026

Short answer For the first day or two after a big update, slowness is expected and self-correcting. Windows is reindexing your drive, recompiling apps and fetching drivers in the background. Leave the PC on and let it finish. If it’s still slow after 48 hours, open Task Manager and look at which resource is pinned […]