zMem

If all your activities are performed on a computer, you might encounter situations in which performance starts to drop. On the other hand, there might not be a way around, except to keep a close watch on system resource usage, and relying on the Task Manager can be a little difficult. This is where zMem comes in handy.

First of all, the application saves you the entire time and effort required to go through a setup process, allowing you to check out the set of features from the moment download is done. More than this, it’s possible to have it stored and carried around on a thumb drive in case you want to use it on other computers, while keeping the health status of the target PC intact.

You might end up scratching your head for a while at first, because the application doesn’t reside in the tray area, and the desktop component is disturbingly thin and transparent, so there’s a chance you have a hard time identifying it. When you do, however, you can move the indicator to any suitable desktop position.

What the application does by default is to monitor CPU usage on your computer, and this is depicted under the form of a percentage indicator. Memory usage is also displayed next to CPU. On the bright side of things, the application doesn’t simply monitor activity, and also lets you manage several processes.

There’s a context menu you can access through a right-click on the desktop object. Here, you have the possibility to open up the default Task Manager, or a custom one. The latter option displays a decent variety of details, but you can’t set up filters, or start new tasks.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that zMem is a pretty lightweight tool which can be used to keep CPU usage under control. The desktop indicator can be a little difficult to track, but it also comes with a custom Task Manager for better control over running processes.