HOW TO CHECK WHICH PROGRAM MAKES CPU HOT Created By : Nubitol 1. In Windows machine, press CTRL then hold it and press ALT and hold both and press DEL keys 2. Click Task Manager from the screen 3. Click on More Details 4. It then become like this 5. Press Performance tab 6. At below, click the link “Open Resource Monitor”, wait for a while for the program to load all the processes 7. Click the column CPU to sort the column, make sure it has V shape after the CPU word meaning sort by highest CPU to lowest CPU usage (if it is not, try clicking it again the sort will be reversed) 8. We see that sqlserv.exe has the highest CPU usage, while a quick googling find out that sqlserv.exe is a program call Microsoft SQL Server which is a Microsoft software product. To search it, right click the row and click Search Online