If you do not already have a utility to monitor your system’s vital statistics (or are just looking for another one), then a utility you might want to check out is CoolMon.
CoolMon is a free utility that can monitor (among other things):
- Processor usage
- Number of active threads
- Used/Free/Total Memory
- Used/Free/Total page file
- Used/Free/Total disk space
- Network read and write speed
Overall, like most monitoring applications, CoolMon does nothing ‘ground breaking’, but it does have a fairly unique user interface which you might be intested in. CoolMon works in all flavors of Windows so if you are in the market, give it a look.



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Warren Fwy said:
11/19/2008 10:13 pm
Wouldn’t run on my XP Pro/Core Duo system (error message “not a valid integer value”).
I use the Windows Performance Monitor constantly — this doesn’t sould like it does much more.
I great utility that does quite a bit more (benchmarking, temperature monitorning, etc.) is Everest.
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