If you are a regular Navigaweb reader, then you will know how much we like computer monitoring utilities, those programs to know what happens in the PC, how the processor is used, the level of disk space, free RAM and so on. Having this data under control is a great way to guarantee a computer without problems and worries and it is also a useful method to solve problems when they occur or on the PCs of less experienced friends.
Not everyone knows that Windows (Windows 7 and 8) has an excellent system for monitoring what is happening on the computer called Resource Monitoring related to reliability monitoring to see the history of problems.
The only problem with these internal Windows tools is that they are difficult to use and not really friendly to the less experienced.
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To have a control panel that works in real time, like an odometer of the machine, which indicates at any moment the progress of the instruments and the hardware use of the PC, you can install a very simple and powerful program called Glint .
Glint is a very small (less than 0.5 MB), portable and free program that works on all Windows PCs, from Windows 2000 to Windows 10, which displays a small floating box on the screen with different indicators on the status of each resource of the computer .
The indicator is very small and not bulky, it can be moved to a corner of the screen and remains superimposed so that it can always be kept under control.
You don't need to be an expert to understand what it signals, it just takes a bit of a habit to read the bars that go up and down every second and work like spies on the state of the computer.
The program allows you to view WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) data in real time in an easy to understand way.
The goal is to provide a dynamic overall picture of the current system status with detailed information on the performance collected and analyzed with advanced monitoring tools such as Process Explorer and Microsoft Performance Monitor.
Start Glint and right click on it to access the various options and meanings of what you see.
Meanwhile, you can choose whether to see the data with graphs or bars and whether to display a smaller or larger box.
Pressing on Settings instead you enter the configuration of the program to customize and choose the values to be checked (here, however, it is all in English and not easy to understand).
Up to 200 indicators can potentially be displayed.
Before becoming familiar with the indicators, it is advisable to set the large view that shows the labels above each bar (passing the mouse over each of them you can see the complete label).
The controls display CPU usage, Cache, Network, System calls per second, Memory, Disk Read, Disk Write and several other less familiar things.
The process that occupies the most resources is also shown on the right so you can know at any moment which program is occupying the power of the computer.
Another very useful program for monitoring the status of the computer in real time and the use of resources is SysGauge, with graphic indicators that show the CPU usage, memory, disk, network and operating system .
