Xpeon-Zen

Xpeon-Zen is a lightweight desktop enhancement utility whose purpose is to help you place a sidebar on your screen that lets you access various utilities, such as note keeper, batter watcher, calculator and search tool.

The sidebar resembles the Charms bar adopted by Windows 8. A smart button integrated in the GUI allows you to hide it from your view. When you hover your mouse cursor over the left side of the desktop, the sidebar automatically reappears.

Xpeon-Zen gives you the possibility to set up various widgets that allow you to keep an eye on different system options. You can monitor your battery, get notifications when it exceeds a certain level, and pick the widget style (metro or widget).

You can configure daily, weekly, monthly or yearly reminders, watch memory usage and automatically kill processes which exceed a custom value, as well as look for file system changes.

You can create notes by providing information about the name and typing the desired messages. Plus, you can lock them.

Xpeon-Zen lets you copy multiple text items to the clipboard, assign system hotkeys for faster actions, work with a simple calculator, as well as add desktop tags and shortcuts.

A few general settings enable you to change the color of the sidebar’s background, alter the font color, pick the preferred position on the screen (left side or right side), and run the application at Windows startup.

We have tested the program on Windows 8.1 Pro and come across several bugs. It crashed several times while trying to create widgets and became unresponsive upon configuring some settings.

Xpeon-Zen provides a simple way for helping you create multiple widgets for monitoring various system-related tasks. Tips and short descriptions about the program’s capabilities are shown in the GUI but they are not translated accurately into English so it may prove to be difficult to understand how the tool works.