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If you\u2019re worried about your PC\u2019s RAM or CPU usage, then installing a system monitor can sometimes be useful. This will usually give you an on-screen display indicating when there\u2019s a high demand for your system\u2019s resources, so alerting you to potential problems as soon as they happen, and perhaps helping you to figure out the cause.<\/p>\n
Having this extra on-screen display can be a problem, though. Usually you either have to free up a little space for a desktop gadget, or you\u2019re left to peer at some tiny system tray indicator. So it\u2019s good to see\u00a0RAM CPU Taskbar<\/a>\u00a0take a different route, by using your entire taskbar as a CPU and memory meter.<\/p>\n Download and run the program and it\u2019ll add an icon to your system tray, and a couple of bars to the right of your taskbar. The top one highlights CPU usage, starts green, turns amber and then red as the figure approaches 100 percent; the lower bar alerts you to RAM use and works in much the same way.<\/p>\n We wondered if this would be intrusive or annoying, but our tests didn\u2019t show any problems. The bars are visible below your taskbar buttons, but they don\u2019t obscure them or otherwise get in your way. And the default refresh rates — once every 10 seconds for RAM, every second for CPU usage — mean that the bars aren\u2019t constantly moving around, so distractions are kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n If you are unhappy with some aspect of the display, though, you can probably tweak in in the program\u2019s comprehensive Settings dialog. There are options to disable either of the bars, for instance; set them to be left or right-aligned; set their positioning, refresh rate, colours and more.<\/p>\n We\u2019re still not entirely sure that we would use\u00a0RAM CPU Taskbar<\/a>\u00a0for long. If a PC has resource issues then we\u2019d rather launch a copy of\u00a0Process Hacker<\/a>\u00a0and figure out the cause right away.<\/p>\n But, if you are looking for a simple memory and processor meter, then the program\u2019s ability to display system information without requiring any extra screen real estate is a major plus. Take a look.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0NinaMalyna<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n If you\u2019re worried about your PC\u2019s RAM or CPU usage, then installing a system monitor can sometimes be useful. This will usually give you an on-screen display indicating when there\u2019s a high demand for your system\u2019s resources, so alerting you to potential problems as soon as they happen, and perhaps helping you to figure out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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