Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Add CPU and memory meters to your Windows 7 taskbar
by Lee Mathews Oct 29th 2009 at 12:00PM
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman), for example, tipped users about a slick addition to your Windows 7 taskbar that you'll find over at Codeplex called Taskbar Meters.
Download developer Jeff Key's .zip file and extract the contents to a folder on your hard drive. Inside you'll find two executables - one for CPU and one for memory. Launch them, and the result is what you see in the screenshot.
The meters make use of the Windows 7 taskbar's progress indicator kung fu. Using the sliders in the ultra-simple options screens you can choose the update frequency and set at what percentage of utilization your indicators switch from green to yellow and then to red. Pin 'em to your taskbar and you've got a simple, Win7-friendly heads up display of your PC's vitals.
They're jumplist enabled as well, though right-clicking only gives you access to task manager (which you've always had by right-clicking the taskbar anyway) and the Windows Resource Monitor.
Each meter uses about 18Mb of ram and worked for me under both 32 and 64-bit builds of Windows 7.
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Drew Green said 12:45PM on 10-29-2009
Get with the times, Lee. It's the Superbar, not the taskbar.
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Lee Mathews said 12:51PM on 10-29-2009
Well aware, Drew, but in order to be found on Google I go with taskbar.
Check it:
Search volume for Superbar: 6,600
Search volume for Taskbar: 368,000
If I want people to be able to find the writeup, I better stick with taskbar for the time being ;)
Drew Green said 1:01PM on 10-29-2009
But you can be one of the first!
minimal said 1:50PM on 10-29-2009
This is great, although on my Win7 64bit system they use up 64MB of RAM so I have to pass. It would be great too if you could combine multiple meters like memory and cpu into one icon, saving some space.
Oh and glad to see another user going with a vertical superbar/taskbar, makes more sense on wide screen monitors.
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