Performance Monitor for Windows

By Lorenzi Davide
Free
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Key Details of Performance Monitor

Monitor your Windows system performance.
Last updated on September 12, 2013
There have been 9 updates
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Editors' Review

Download.com staffSeptember 12, 2013

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.

What's new in version 4.1

Version 4.1 added network max bandwidth in settings, ability to set the update interval time, and ability to backup and restore position of panels.

Performance Monitor for Windows

By Lorenzi Davide
Free
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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: May 6, 2012

Latest update: September 12, 2013

Version: 4.1

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 16,282

Downloads Last Week: 2

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User Reviews

4/5

5 User Votes

awesome ,can't imagine better
PapaJohnnOctober 15, 2011
Pros
very simple to use, 4 avail graphs.can place them in small tray or any where on desktop.many options,as size in graphs,opacity of graph.small application.etc.
Cons
haven't found one.
Summary
sometimes my computer slows to halt and id like to see whats going on. i had other software before but this is great. also cnet is great,no spyware. =D
Monitor Your Computer's Vitals!
benjirooSeptember 18, 2010
Pros
Click-through doesn't get in the way of applications, especially on space-limited laptop screens. Customizable colors and transparency
Cons
Previous version allowed you to move the whole group by dragging only the CPU monitor, but not this version. Sometimes on my laptop XP SP3 it fights with Chrome for always-on-top.
Summary
Great light weight application
cody_powersSeptember 15, 2008
Pros
No problems and lightweight!!
Cons
None that I can think of.
Summary
Get the newest version
kottosSeptember 2, 2008
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
Summary
Blew up my machine
timothydh65July 12, 2007
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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Developer's Description

By Lorenzi Davide

Monitor your Windows system performance.

Performance Monitor is a program that shows you the CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization under Windows NT platforms. It's composed by four fully configurable small graphs and it can work in the tray area also.

The windows are fully attachable 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