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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 08, 2007
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- CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This tiny executable places four system monitoring graphs on your desktop, but we found them too difficult to read. Performance Monitor's simple settings interface makes it easy to set the visibility and colors of the four monitoring graphs, but they don't make enough of an impact. A setting to double the graph sizes just changes them from tiny to small.
Performance Monitor's graphs are easily dragged to sit anywhere on your desktop. Setting an option to make the graphs invisible to regular mouse clicks makes it easy to set them above other applications. You can move your mouse over any graph to get current information. That works better than trying to figure the scale of an unlabeled graph. The four graphs are Disk Usage, CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Net Usage. We had to roll over each graph to see those titles.
What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you can't see surely can't help you. Performance Monitor will work for a select few with small screen resolution, but all others will need to find a better way to see how their systems are working.
Publisher's description
(From Lorenzi Davide ):Performance Monitor is a program that shows you the CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization under Windows NT platforms (2000, XP). It's composed by four fully configurable small graphs and it can work in the tray area also.
The windows are fully anchorable and by moving the "CPU" window you'll move the other attached windows. Performance Monitor can become transparent and permits you to forward left-mouse clicks so you can place it anywhere. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 4 votes
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Version: Performance Monitor 3.6
Pros: Installation looks like old software. While installing several prompts about a newer file exists I did not let it overwrite and then when application started it just hung and locked up PC. May work for others but didn't work for me.
Cons: Didn't like at all see above.
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Version: Performance Monitor 3.6
"A top rate basic monitor. 3.6 is an old version though!"
Pros: I absolutely love this system tray (notification area) monitor for my CPU.
It has a plain simple face with a scrolling graph to show usage.
The colour of the display can customised to your liking.
Other monitors can be switched on / off as required.Cons: If you upgrade to version 3.9.5 (the latest as at 12-Dec-08) then the system tray monitor display changes to a bar type graph with horizontal and vertical lines which in my opinion do not look as good in such a small size.
Summary: I have decided to install version 3.8.15 as this seems to be last version with this clear display in the system tray.
You can download the latest version at the developers site www.hexagora.com
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Version: Performance Monitor 3.6
"Great light weight application"
Pros: No problems and lightweight!!
Cons: None that I can think of.
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Version: Performance Monitor 3.6
Pros: The updated version, 3.8.15, works great! Can customize graphs, tooltips display more detailed info, the ability to double the size of graphs for higher resolution monitors, and a small memory footprint.
Cons: Would be nice to have more control over the sizing of the graphs
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