Hi,

Does anyone know a good system monitor kind of program for Windows?

I use iPulse and/or X Resource Graph (XRG) on Mac OS X and would like something similar for Windows.

I have been running Google Desktop which has a widget for that but I would rather not run any widget engines (Google or Yahoo/Confabulator). Also the system monitor widget is very inaccurate - doesn't see all disks or all networks.

I want something that's

- Simple to use

- Doesnt use a lot of resources - always running

- Is accurate

- Pretty? Maybe too much to ask...

Something like XRG would be ideal. It's free, pretty, small, uses little resources, and has a wealth of information. iPulse is equally good but not free.

Click Start, click Run, and then type perfmon.msc in the Open box.

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The programme seems to run, no errors.

But nothing comes up on the screen to allow me to add counters..................

chase the answer down in the help files ,

performance logs and alerts > how to ..........

The programme seems to run, no errors.

But nothing comes up on the screen to allow me to add counters..................

Right click on the graph and select "Add counter.." or "Properties".

Yes that's just what I wanted - except not fugly and with more options for graphing. The I/O graphs need to adjust with the average so they display meaningful numbers for example. Not be at 0 most of the time, then shoot to way above 100 (how much you can't see - out of range), then come back to 0 again.

Also it displays bytes / second for the hard disk which results in huge numbers and to top it all off the numbers aren't formatted.

Thanks for pointing this out to me, but it doesn't fulfill my needs at all.

I am looking for something like this:

Link might be worth a look.

Regards

Perf+

PS Have just tried link, which is OK, but have problems getting to the source, maybe a temporary issue, don't know.

PPS Did have it but haven't got it on the systems I'm using now.

/edit add PS'//

Another link to add would be this one:-

Regards

SysInternals