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You can get anything from basic meters like the one I use (called Blue Vision) or you can get an Iron Man themed desktop that will make for great conversation when people see your desktop. Rainmeter skins can be found on, the developer site where the compiled program and source code can be found, on DeviantArt, and on. It is totally unobtrusive and never slows the system down, even with the fair amount of animation from the meters. The memory monitor shows free and used memory and adjusts as I open and close apps.Īll of this is courtesy of an app that occupies 48KB of memory on my 16GB system. The C: drive monitor tells me the capacity of the drive and also has a small meter for activity, so spikes in activity are clearly displayed. To the right of the CPU skins is the C: drive monitor and below that the memory monitor. Again, this is a good way of catching unusual or suspect behavior if there is a massive spike in activity. It doesn't tell me what app is doing it, I need to go into the Task Manager for that, but it does give me a first warning of strange activity.īelow the CPU meters are the network traffic meters, one for uploads and one for downloads. I look at the meters and see if one or more are maxed, which would indicate a program running full out and hogging the CPU. Sup gents, just updated to 2.4 and for some reason my cpu temp is not showing up. This proves helpful if there is a slowdown or strange behavior in my system. It's hard to tell but the skins also report the core temperature, which only works if you are running the system monitoring utility SpeedFan. Rainmeter will run on Windows 7 (Service Pack 1 and Platform Update required) and above. My system is a quad core Intel processor, so with hyperthreading I needed all 8 meters to monitor activity. On the upper right you see eight CPU core meters, and below that the up/down network traffic meters. There are other customizable RSS feeds but I like this one best.īelow that is an image display that changes pictures every 10 seconds, and underneath that is a weather skin, with data from The Weather Channel. I find myself clicking on news items multiple times per day. It uses Open Hardware Monitor as the source for the data so make. Its my first rainmeter creation so let me know if you encounter any issues. Change the Graphics preference to Power Saving. Once Rainmeter appears in the list, click on Options. This file is mainly located inside the C:Program FilesRainmeter directory. ![]() Click the Browse button and select the Rainmeter.exe file. Hey all, Ive made a small widget style skin for background monitoring of CPU and GPU temperature, usage, and clock speeds. Open the Windows search bar, type Graphics settings, and click Open. The left side features three RSS feeds, all of which load in the browser if you click on the headline. Ive made a new CPU/GPU Temperature and Usage Monitor (August 2021) - Updated. (No, I don't run a black background, I just changed it for the sake of this posting.) I put them in the corners and Outlook sits open in the middle between the two groups of skins. Monitor two is where most of the skins reside. A lot of Rainmeter complete sets are designed for a single monitor, but you can also get individual pieces and mix and match to suit your own display. Could even cover almost all of it up and leave just the 3 or 4 characters on the edge that show most important numbers.I use two 24" monitors on my work/personal system, which gives me plenty of screen real estate. I've got a slim bar that crams in almost every stat & graph I might want, and it's small enough to keep it always visible. Like this Hej Conky setup found on this page : ![]() Lots of them use LUA and pretty rings and such, but they can take up lots of valuable desktop space. Implemented a temporary workaround in All CPU Meters settings skin v0.5. Could be a lot easier than DIY'ing your own. Auto-detection of system monitoring software is currently broken. A web search for best conky configs - just copy some cool ones & edit away. ![]() After you get the right settings above the TEXT line to use conky on your desktop, easy web search to find those. ![]() And the reload trick killall -SIGUSR1 conky is excellent. It's basically just take the default config file, and add/change stuff under the TEXT line. just type them into your config file & test it out. Converting from rainmeter config to conky config, maybe if you went through it by hand yourself, but I am not aware of any automatic tool.Ĭonky can do free drive space, disk read/write speeds, cpu usage, free/total/used ram, sensor temps & fanspeeds, processses, network UL/DL speed & totals.
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