Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Taskbar Meters and SuperbarMonitor: 2 Awesome Free Tools to Show System Resource Usage in Windows 7 Taskbar

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Windows 7 comes with new Superbar which is a highly enhanced version of classic Taskbar. One of the most impressive feature of this new Superbar is the ability of showing progressbar in program's Taskbar button.
Today we are going to share 2 excellent, absolutely free and portable tools for Windows 7 which utilize this ability of Superbar in showing system resource usage so that you can monitor them easily and quickly.
  • Taskbar Meters
  • SuperbarMonitor
Taskbar Meters
Taskbar Meters is a set of 3 executable files which show following information in Windows 7 Superbar:
  • CPU usage
  • RAM usage
  • Disk IO
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You can also access Task Manager and Resource Monitor applications using the jumplist.
It allows you to customize the update frequency and other settings.
You can download it using following link:
SuperbarMonitor
SuperbarMonitor is similar to Taskbar Meters. Its a set of 5 executable files which show following information in Windows 7 Superbar:
  • CPU usage
  • RAM usage
  • Disk IO
  • Battery life
  • Volume
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It allows you to set the update interval, overlay icon and a few other settings.
You can download it using following link:

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