XMeters

Keeping track of your system's current resource consumption is the first step toward detecting any issues. If you're looking for a fashionable and customizable system information viewer, you can try your luck with XMeters.

Focusing solely on CPU, RAM, network and storage activity, the highlight feature of this app is that it gets integrated with the Windows taskbar. By just taking a glance at the readings next to the clock, you can quickly learn how much CPU, memory, storage and network traffic is being used by the computer and running applications.

The tool requires .NET Framework 4.0 or newer. If you don't have this built-in Windows feature turned on, XMeters refuses to run properly. After installation, it's necessary to reboot the system. Although this isn't specified during setup, the app autoruns at every Windows startup without your intervention.

To add/remove it from the taskbar, you can open the right-click menu and select/deselect the "XMeters" entry from the "Toolbars" submenu. Customization settings are available from a stylish window, where changes are reflected in real time so you can easily decide upon the preferred configuration.

You can choose the stats type separately for CPU, storage, network and memory (bar, pie, text), as well as set the refresh rate. For CPU, you can set the outline, system and user colors, as well as show individual cores and separate the user/privileges utilization.

The reading and writing colors can be picked for storage, along with just one local drive (all partitions are monitored by default). As far as network properties are concerned, you can select the colors for sent and received packets, together with the network interface to watch. Lastly, you can indicate the outline and used memory colors when it comes to RAM.

Minimal system resources were used by this application. It displayed accurate information. Taking into account its attractive interface and practical settings, XMeters should meet the requirements of many users looking for a stylish and customizable system information viewer.