Scales to any desired size. Battery Meter Displays the current battery status, including time remaining and current percentage remaining. Shows current voltage, charge and discharge rates, current and maximum charge capacity.
Displays power in either watts or milliamps. Supports automatic failover on systems having multiple batteries. Calendar Based on LuaCalendar , styled to match the Gadget suite. Supports multiple appearance options similar to the original Windows Sidebar gadget: calendar only, calendar with large date, and large date. Chronometer Digital Clock displays time, date, day, week, and quarter of the year. Shows computer uptime and session logon time optional. Shows event countdown with customizable sound optional.
Includes configurable chime and multiple alarms with customizable sounds optional. Supports Windows localized or custom time and date formats.
Supports world times, can be adjusted for time zones and daylight saving time. Includes Analog Clock variant, styled to match the Gadget suite. Drives Meter Displays disk information for up to 26 logical drives fixed and removable only.
Gadget dynamically adjusts to handle adding and removing drives. Shows used, free, and total disk space available. Displays percent disk utilization for each drive, plus the total. Shows throughput for each drive read and write. Displays disk time percentage histogram optional. Drive space bar graph changes color when disks are nearing capacity. Opens drive in Explorer or runs any user-defined command when disk label is clicked.
Shows used, free, and total RAM available, with memory clock speed. Shows GPU temperature, core load, and core voltage. Shows GPU fan speed and percent utilization. Displays graphical line chart of RAM, core load, temperature, and fan usage optional.
Network Meter Shows data for all or selected network interfaces info. Displays internal and external IP addresses optional. Displays peak network throughput. A few come from Microsoft , but the vastmajority were written by third-party developers, and most work withboth Windows 7 and Vista.
There are gadgets for gaming, monitoring online auctions, keeping upwith email or social media, playing music, encrypting files and evenshowing the phase of the moon. More important, though, gadgets can beextremely useful for system monitoring. Together, they provide a wealth of informationabout how your computer is operating in an at-a-glance format.
The best of them go a step further by linking to key system software. Like other Windows gadgets, these system monitors are small from 26KBto around 2MB and have a highly focused scope.
The best part is that they are all free for the download — a great wayto add to your system without subtracting from your wallet.
You can choose to have SysInfo display all its info on thedesktop or just in clickable category headers or the single icon, andyou can adjust its size on the desktop. DownloadSysInfo KB. SystemControl A1. In contrast, System Control A1 focuses on the essentials. In additionto a prominent digital clock that shows the current time in a orhour format as well as uptime, System Control presents a nifty bargraph showing how much memory the system has as well as its free memoryavailable.
Temperature gauge CoreTemp Gadget. There are few things worse for your computer than allowing itsprocessor, often its most expensive part, to overheat and burn out. Allit takes is one key transistor in the chip shorting out and the wholething is an expensive piece of garbage. The center of attention, however, is its temperature readings: CoreTemp shows how hot it is inside your processor in surprising detail.
On top of adjusting the size of the gadget, you can change whatinformation to show, the colors to use and how the graphs are set up. The gadget works with recentAMD and Intel processors , although some Phenom and Phenom IIchips have a single temperature sensor and provide only one reading forthe entire chip. In the event that your system does start to overheat, Core Temp hasyour back.
The fabric of a working computer is the sum of theseprocesses. Use Top Process Monitor to keep an eye on software processes that areusing lots of system resources. It can show the top processes for various operations including CPU use,memory use, virtual memory use, input-output operations and drive readsand writes.
You can also choose to view any individual process along with its usagedata, or have the gadget cycle through any group of them. Upgrading the service is recommended. Corrected All CPU Meter for issue where cores were not shown properly on machines with multiple processor groups i.
Thanks excesseve! Enhanced ActiveNet plugin to add CpuGroups to return the number of processor groups per machine. Corrected Network Meter regression issue where monitoring could report incorrect values if no adapters were configured. Corrected NetMonitor service to prevent crash caused by rare case where duplicate invalid network adapters exist.
Upgrading the service is optional. Revised ActiveNet plugin to remove all network adapter options; use SysInfo measures instead. Upgraded Calendar to LuaCalendar 6. Thanks ET! Corrected Weather Meter regression issue where skin would not properly snap on the right side when the scale factor was something other than 1.
Enhanced Weather Meter to add Romanian translations. Thanks Yincognito! Corrected Welcome gadget issue which did not display the Top Process Meter checkbox properly. Reverted dynamic settings enhancement added to all skins in v6. Revised NetMonitor service for rare case where network activity could be reported incorrectly after switching adapters. Updated to. NET Framework 4. Revised Network Meter and Wireless Meter to react better when switching between wired and wireless networks.
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