A Gadget with CPU, HDD and RAM usage of processes

Hello folks,

Can you give me some suggestions on gadgets which work sort-of like the "processes" tab of Task Manager? I write number-crunching code for a living and when I launch a process it's useful for me to know how much CPU, RAM and HDD access it is using, so I can estimate how many such parallel processes I can have. Task Manager sort of does the job, but a gadget would be much better.

Thanks in advance!

 

For cpu and ram you can use something like this:
Windows Gadgets - All CPU Meter Version 3.7

It'll show total cpu usage plus a breakdown per core, and your used ram/total ram and the percentage. Don't know one for hdd unfortunately.

 

Rainmeter is much better IMHO.

Much more configurable.

It can display info for MASSES of stuff including HDD, Swap, free space, Used space, Rx, Tx, Total data download, upload, weather, time, RSS feeds, winamp widgets....it goes on and on and on.

 

But can it show what the OP asked?

 

You could just use the built-in Resource Monitor, which gives you an abundance of information. Only if you feel that there's something missing there you need, you can look elsewhere. The SysInternals tools would be my first bets for that.

 

Try HWInfo32/64.

It has a host of info that can be displayed in the tray or a simple gadget. (all you require I believe, It also has alarms you can set. If you click on one of the tray icons the entire config pops up.

 

yes and lots more! take a look at the link or even google it.

 

Rainmeter is nice but with some of the configs you have a lot to mess with, plus its another program you have to install.


That and I've had it go buggy on me after a while. s:

 

IMHO It uses far less resources than a lot of other programs for monitoring resources. I can't say I have ever had "bugs" with Rainmeter. I suppose it depends on the config files and how they are written.