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  2. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    GPU Issues: If your computer relies on a dedicated graphics processing unit (GPU) for tasks such as gaming or video editing, issues with the GPU can cause slow performance or graphical glitches.

  3. Graphics Device Interface - Wikipedia

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    Later versions such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP can report GDI object usage for each program in the Task Manager, but they cannot tell the user the total GDI capacity available. Overflowing GDI capacity can affect Windows itself, preventing new windows from opening, menus from displaying, and alert boxes from appearing.

  4. Task Manager (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Task Manager, previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems. It provides information about computer performance and running software, including names of running processes, CPU and GPU load, commit charge, I/O details, logged-in users, and Windows services.

  5. Performance Monitor - Wikipedia

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    Performance Monitor (known as System Monitor in Windows 9x, Windows 2000, and Windows XP) is a system monitoring program introduced in Windows NT 3.1.It monitors various activities on a computer such as CPU or memory usage.

  6. Commit charge - Wikipedia

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    Similar displays in the Task Manager of Windows Vista and later have been changed to reflect usage of physical memory. In Task Manager's "Processes" display, each process's contribution to the "total commit charge" is shown in the "VM size" column in Windows XP and Server 2003. The same value is labeled "Commit size" in Windows Vista and later ...

  7. Windows System Assessment Tool - Wikipedia

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    At the 2003 Game Developers Conference Dean Lester, Microsoft's General Manager of Windows Graphics and Gaming, stated in an interview with GameSpot that Microsoft intended to focus on improvements to the PC gaming experience as part of a new gaming initiative for the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, then codenamed "Longhorn."

  8. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The debugger can then be used to examine the contents of memory and determine the source of the problem. A BSoD can also be caused by a critical boot loader error, where the operating system is unable to access the boot partition due to incorrect storage drivers, a damaged file system or similar problems.

  9. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling: masked as an additional option in the system settings, when enabled offloads high-frequency tasks to a dedicated GPU-based scheduling processor, reducing CPU scheduling overhead. Requires ad-hoc hardware and driver support. [61] Sampler Feedback, allowing a finer tune of the resources usage in a scene. [62]