Tip #28: XP System Information at a Glance

Today's tip is on adding simple "widgets" to your Windows XP desktop to provide easily accessible information about your system...

Using a free and customizable utility called Rainmeter, we will be able to display current system statistics directly on the desktop... The Rainmeter System Information widget displays current CPU, physical memory, virtual memory, and hard drive usage, as well as current network bandwidth utilization... Rainmeter is also skinnable and provides other widgets for current weather information, news feeds, and other information...

Rainmeter can be downloaded from here, and additional themes can be obtained here...

The screenshot below shows Rainmeter running using the "Lucid Smoked" theme:


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