Perfmonbar – Display system status in Windows taskbar with fully customizable display

Perfmonbar
This is a non-out-of-the-box software, different systems need different configurations, just edit the config.xml file in the %APPDATA%\PerfmonBar directory.

First, you need to get the system status parameters, open a command prompt and type.

typeperf -q > counters.txt
Then you will get a counters.txt file with all customizable content.

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Just add each line of the counters.txt file to the config.xml file.

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For such a highly customizable tool, you really need to be able to toss it around, after all, it doesn’t work out of the box ?

Then, you can open the Performance Monitor Toolbar in the taskbar toolbar.

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Finally, for this practical and slightly cumbersome tool, students who like it will love it, while those who don’t like the hassle will surely scoff at it.