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Occasionally, my PC grinds to a halt, and by the time I get any monitoring tools open (don't forget my PC is slow at this point), performance has picked up a bit. A friend recently told me he uses iPulse, which is awesome since it's always running, and you can just glance at it when there's an issue to see what is happening. Unfortunately it's only for the Mac. Does anybody know of a good Windows system monitoring tool similar to iPulse for the Mac? | ||||
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Process Explorer is pretty nice. | |||||
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Anvir Task Manager might be what you're looking for (can be set to start with Windows).
Icons and tooltips in tray for CPU, memory, network, disk load, HDD temperature, recently opened folders/programs and battery stats.
Free and portable editions are available from the download section. If you think Anvir is somewhat of an overkill, have a look at MooO SystemMonitor:
A nice feature is the warning when a bottleneck occurs. MooO SystemMonitor is freeware, are portable version is available. | ||||
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Some time ago I wrote a severely cut down knock off of iPulse for XP in C++ using GDI+. Later, I thought it might be fun to rewrite it for WPF in C# and learn the platform along the way. At that time WPF wasn't performing well enough under XP, so I abandoned it. Your post prompted me to try it now, on Windows 7, and I have to say things look much better. It's only rarely going above 3%, most of the time idling at 0%. If you want me to, I can send either of the two versions your way, but be warned that they only include the basic iPulse functionality, i.e. display of disk/cpu/network/memory status, and no configuration options whatsoever. Oh, and you can use the original jackets, downloaded from iconfactory's website, provided you can find a way to extract them from the .dmg files. | |||
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