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Best Free Resource Meter [1]

Last updated by George [2] on 27. April 2016 - 01:22

Introduction

Resource Meter software displays specific system-related information, mostly about how your available resources like CPU capacity, memory space or disk space are currently in use (or available). Engineers use these utilities regularly because they can reveal reasons for a loss in performance or how busy your machine is. Some of these programs concentrate more on the information itself, others offer great designs and skinning possibilities too.

Rated Products

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Rainmeter [4] [5]

Extremely configurable, awesome resource meters anywhere on your desktop

Our Rating:
4.5
License: Free
Skinning, many modules and skins downloadable, multiple skins loadable, extremely customizable
Difficult configuration via INI files, some modules might not work correctly
Read full review... [5]
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Sysmetrix [9] [10]

Highly configurable, awesome resource meter on your desktop

Our Rating:
3.5
License: Free
Skinning, wide variety of meters, easy configuration
One skin only, only total CPU load, product not maintained anymore
Read full review... [10]
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TinyResMeter [12] [13]

Simple, basic but fast textual resource meter

Our Rating:
3.5
License: Free
Fast, effective, very small file size
Not much options, no graphical display
Read full review... [13]

Related Products and Links

System TrayPerformance Monitor [15] - A great alternative for system tray monitoring is Performance Monitor. This little free tool offers the most important meters in one shot: CPU, Memory, Disk and Network. You can have system tray icons, like shown in the screenshot on the left, or larger desktop meters. All colors can be configured. Only flaw is that only one max value for network traffic can be set, not considering that they mostly differ for download and upload.

Taskbar MetersTaskbar Meters [16] - Taskbar Meters is an application that shows three little meters (CPU, Memory, disk I/O) in the Windows 7 taskbar. See more details here [16].

You might also be interested in reading our related article about the Best Free Process Viewer [17].

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