ProcessList

Designed for the Yahoo! Widget Engine platform, ProcessList is a small-sized gadget that reveals details about currently running processes. It acts like the Windows Task Manager, except for the fact that it doesn't offer controls for terminating or switching to processes.

The main window is semi-transparent and has a neatly organized structure. The active applications are detected at startup automatically, and their corresponding processes are displayed in a list. In addition to the process names, users can find out the process ID, memory usage and CPU time, along with the total, system and user processes.

By default, entries are sorted by memory usage. This option can be changed from the preferences panel to sort processes by their ID (low to high, or high to low), name or CPU time. It's also possible to modify the default update interval between updates (in seconds, default is 10) and maximum number or processes to display in the list (default is 10).

Thanks to the built-in Yahoo! Widget Engine options, the main window of ProcessList can be set to stay on top of other panels, and its opacity can be adjusted. The widget may also be instructed to ignore mouse events and prevent dragging.