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How to Get CPU Usage of Processes and Threads

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This article will explain how to calculate the CPU usage efficiently (with low CPU usage).
The CPU usage is often recognized from Windows Task Manager. I will explain in this article the most efficient way I could find to calculate it for both processes and threads.

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