First I'm going to say, I really know nothing about the internal operations and functions of a computer. It was really only until last night that I researched basic terminology wanting to be able to understand what these nifty gadgets are telling me.
I was bored and browsing options in windows 7 customization panel. I had been over and over and over again the cp, and the only thing I hadn't checked out were the gadgets.
I remember when the gadgets first came out, which was when I had the slowest computer in existence: 2 gig hard drive and supposedly 512 MB of Ram, but according to a little app I had, was only averaging about 12-20 MB of RAM... yeahhhhh. So when I saw gadgets, what came to mind was: slow your computer down, junk up your screen, "I'll probably just remove them anyway", etc etc. But thanks to my boredom, I checked them out anyway.
And wow! The gadgets they have now are really impressive, haha! I have three that I really like and am pretty pleased that I understand what they are telling me. 😛 Most of you are probably familiar with these gadgets, so I do not mean to insult your intelligence with the following explanation.
One is a CPU usage gadget + core temperature meter. I think it's extremely cool. Currently it's displaying that:
The second one I like a whole lot is the Network Meter, made by the same guys who made the CPU usage. Other than the fundamental displayed information such as your web and personal IP, I think the coolest part about it is, like the CPU usage, it updates all of collected web data in real time which are uploaded and downloaded packages in bytes per second (which can be customized to KB, MB and GB) I have it set where the top of the graph is set at 1 MB, therefore if the downloaded package bar turns red, I will know whatever page I am visiting basically has way too much crap on it for my liking (facebook....)
Then the third, again made by the same team, basically displays all the same sort of information about only about the GPU.
I think it is neat that I am able to have these apps side by side, comparing each's data while on the computer doing my thang 😛
Most of you probably think I've been living under a rock for nearly a decade, 😛 but I am actually new to Windows. I have used either MacOSX or Ubuntu my whole life and have really never been a fan of all the customization stuff. But I have to admit, some of it is pretty nifty 🙂
Oh, and I apologize for any grammar mistakes. No way in hell I'm editing this thing.
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I was bored and browsing options in windows 7 customization panel. I had been over and over and over again the cp, and the only thing I hadn't checked out were the gadgets.
I remember when the gadgets first came out, which was when I had the slowest computer in existence: 2 gig hard drive and supposedly 512 MB of Ram, but according to a little app I had, was only averaging about 12-20 MB of RAM... yeahhhhh. So when I saw gadgets, what came to mind was: slow your computer down, junk up your screen, "I'll probably just remove them anyway", etc etc. But thanks to my boredom, I checked them out anyway.
And wow! The gadgets they have now are really impressive, haha! I have three that I really like and am pretty pleased that I understand what they are telling me. 😛 Most of you are probably familiar with these gadgets, so I do not mean to insult your intelligence with the following explanation.
One is a CPU usage gadget + core temperature meter. I think it's extremely cool. Currently it's displaying that:
- I'm using 2% of my CPU
- I'm using an intel Core2 Quad Q820)
- I'm using 15.72MB of RAM with 6627MB free averaging a total of 8191MB
The second one I like a whole lot is the Network Meter, made by the same guys who made the CPU usage. Other than the fundamental displayed information such as your web and personal IP, I think the coolest part about it is, like the CPU usage, it updates all of collected web data in real time which are uploaded and downloaded packages in bytes per second (which can be customized to KB, MB and GB) I have it set where the top of the graph is set at 1 MB, therefore if the downloaded package bar turns red, I will know whatever page I am visiting basically has way too much crap on it for my liking (facebook....)
Then the third, again made by the same team, basically displays all the same sort of information about only about the GPU.
I think it is neat that I am able to have these apps side by side, comparing each's data while on the computer doing my thang 😛
Most of you probably think I've been living under a rock for nearly a decade, 😛 but I am actually new to Windows. I have used either MacOSX or Ubuntu my whole life and have really never been a fan of all the customization stuff. But I have to admit, some of it is pretty nifty 🙂
Oh, and I apologize for any grammar mistakes. No way in hell I'm editing this thing.
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