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Windows performance,
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Written by the developer of an open-source system monitor — from real sensor data, not recycled myths. No registry voodoo, no bloatware recommendations.

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Temperatures

What's a normal CPU temperature?

72°C while gaming is fine. The same 72°C at idle is a warning. Why one threshold for every PC is a myth — with per-workload reference table.

Read the guide -> Drivers

Ghost drivers: the hardware you removed years ago

Your old GPU's driver is still in Windows — hidden by Device Manager. How to find and remove ghosts with pnputil, step by step.

Read the guide -> PL · Optymalizacja

Jak przyspieszyć komputer — bez mitów

Co naprawdę spowalnia Windows i co realnie pomaga: autostart, usługi, dyski, RAM. Konkretna kolejność działań zamiast 50 przypadkowych trików.

Czytaj poradnik -> PL · Usługi

Które usługi Windows można bezpiecznie wyłączyć

Lista usług, które realnie można zatrzymać — i tych, których nie wolno ruszać. Na bazie profili Gaming/Work/Economy z PC Workmana.

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Coming next
Disk

100% disk usage in Windows — the real causes

Indexing, diagnostics telemetry, antivirus scans. How to identify which one is eating your disk.

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Startup

Startup programs: what's safe to disable

Boot impact ratings and the entries that quietly re-add themselves.

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PSU

What 12V rail readings say about your power supply

Reading voltage rails like an engineer — spikes, sustained sag and what's physically normal.

Coming soon
These guides come from a real tool. PC Workman monitors temperatures per workload, finds ghost drivers and manages services automatically — free, open source, offline. Download it here.
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Marcin Firmuga

Solo developer · HCK_Labs · 18 months of sensor data behind every guide

I write these from what PC Workman's sensors actually show across real machines — including the 2014 laptop at 94°C this project started on.

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