I love this little application already and I’ve only been using it for a couple of minutes! There are tons of desktop gadgets for viewing resource use but if you’re like the majority of people you’ll keep at least one window maximized all the time then it’s hard to see your desktop. Yeah sure you can Aero peak with the button in the bottom right of the screen or 
+ space but being able see it on the task bar would be cool wouldn’t it?
Well now you can thanks to codeplex project Taskbar Meters. Download and extract the Zip and run TaskbarCpuMeter.exe or TaskbarMemoryMeter.exe depending on which you want to watch and this is what you’ll get 
a nice clean, always available view of usage. Very handy.
Even better it’s possible to customize the thresholds for it going yellow and red for high and scary-high CPU and memory usage! This app also has jump list access to Resource Monitor (for serious resource watching) and to Task Manager.
Task manager can also be used for something like this. Once it’s running it’ll show a CPU chart in the notification area, the fastest way to start Task manager is with SHIFT + CTRL + ESC
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