Did somebody say dual core? We decided to crank out a quick update to the System Monitor gadget for all you enthusiasts out there. We’ve added in dual and quad core support to the CPU monitor and an additional option to the RAM monitor. Here’s a quick rundown:
It’s a minor update, but we hope you all enjoy it. Let us know about any issues you run into and any additions you would love to see in the future.
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V1.1 of this gadget is impressive. The “selection of tools” feature and other incorporated customization capabilities make the gadget highly versatile. I consider this to be one of the best (if not the best) gadgets of its kind for Vista Sidebar…along with XM Online Radio.
Suggested Tool additions:
1. Add a tool that shows the top 3 or 4 running processes in RAM, by CPU utilization percent. I find that the existing gadget “Top Processes” is very useful for monitoring system performance and tracking down problem software.
2. Add a tool that monitors network activity for either wireless or wired connections. This might be an expanded feature of the existing IP Addresses tool.
Ever since this update, my player has not been putting out any sound. I can see where it loads the songs and information from the selected channels, just no sound comes out. I can play music from the website fine.
wrong gadget, sorry
I have downloaded this program but cannot install. Any advice?
Tom Ray, Thanks for the suggestions, we’ll definitely take a look at those for the next update.
Golden Mesa, Can you elaborate on what’s happening when you try to install the gadget?
Great tool and blogged about it too. A few suggesstions:
1. As Tom Ray put it above, showing the running processes on clicking the CPU or memory monitors would be nice.
2. A running display of network activity is cool too
3. Would be nice to have a hard disk usage monitor as well - showing used and free space.
4. Ability to change color of the bar for WiFi and Battery status monitors
5. Themes? 
Hi
Getting the monitors in a graph format would be really nice to have with options to choose the length of graph history and refresh rate.
Ideally monitors required are:
CPU usage with options for multi core 1/2/4
RAM Usage
Network utilization LAN / WLAN like a graph with signal strength
Hard drive / drive usage
Battery usage
System monitor gadget in this on one line
IP Address
Ping tab
I know this is asking a lot but most of us use all these separate gadgets.
Would be great to have all in one.
Thanks
How about an ARIN Lookup in the tools?
http://www.arin.net
I get a message ‘no wireless ip’. I don’t have wireless & have wired network. Does this gadjet assume all computers are networked wirelessly?
SRG, thanks, we’ll look into those.
mo, unfortunately, the sidebar API only gives information about the wireless IP on laptops. For some reason, the sidebar was never given built in wired IP calls. We’re hoping to alleviate this in the future, probably though doing some custom ActiveX programming.
Everyone Else, thanks for the suggestions, we are reading them and hope to be able to include many of them as time goes on, this gadget is far from perfect. Don’t worry, we’re working on it.
Great gadget! One bug (I’m guessing it’s a bug) I’ve run into is that on my laptop, the battery time estimate seems to have a max time of 1:59. At 100% charge, Windows says I have over 3 hours, but the gadget always shows 1:59 (until I reach the point that there is actually 1:59 remaining on the battery, and then it starts counting down correctly). It would be nice if the battery time estimate didn’t max-out at 1:59. Other than that, I love it! Thanks
Nice looking, but shame about the occasional negative readings on the processor activity bars. I didn’t think it was possible to be -0.9% active.
great gadget!
what about adding hard drive space used at an option?
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