Top 15 Compact Tray Meter Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

This compact utility displays real-time CPU, RAM and disk drives usage meters right on the taskbar notification area, or next to the system clock, that is always visible:

>> Special features:
-Real-time reporting of the CPU activity.
-Real-time reporting on the system RAM usage.
-Real-time reporting of the disk drives activity.
-Color coding of the readouts can indicate CPU/RAM/disk drive workload even without seeing the actual numbers.
-Support for higher resolutions and screen DPIs for better meters readability.
-Ability to safely remove (or eject) USB drives with one click of the mouse, even on older operating systems, such as Windows XP.
-This program does not require installation, or administrative privileges to operate and can be run from any location on your hard drive.
-This program also obtains the following information about the CPU(s) (or, Central Processing Units) on your system:
-Brand name of the CPU.
-CPU architecture, i.e. 32-bit, 64-bit, etc.
-CPU clock reading.
-Number of physical and logical CPU cores.
-Number of NUMA nodes.
-Information about L1/L2/L3 caches.
-Additional technical information about CPU, reported directly by the die itself.
-This program also obtains the following information about the RAM (or system memory):
-Capacity of each RAM module in bytes.
-Form factor (DIMM, RIMM, etc.)
-Memory type (SDRAM, DDR, DDR-2, etc.)
-Type detail (synchronous, nonvolatile, etc.)
-RAM speed (566 ns, 800 ns, etc)
-Data width (64 bits, etc)
-Interleave information.
-Serial, manufacture's, SKU and part numbers on RAM modules. ...

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