If you are using Windows and don't know where to start then you can try Rainmeter.
LiteStep folks liked it. Personally I never bothered with it, because, well I could hear it, lol, but I do miss LiteStep dearly.
LiteStep folks liked it. Personally I never bothered with it, because, well I could hear it, lol, but I do miss LiteStep dearly.
The author of the article has iStart on the menu bar, so the performance indicators are visible even when application windows are covering the desktop. The GNOME extension system-monitor-next[1], as mentioned in the article, is also similar.
Does anyone have recommendations for something similar on Windows?
[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3010/system-monitor-n...
(also I think it has a topmost option for some skin, so not only desktop)
I can't vouch for any of them because I don't use them, but just a quick search for "cpu utilization hdd utilization in the taskbar" shows a lot of options, eg https://entropy6.com/xmeters/
Or even running the default Task Manager so it would be only in the notification area and not in the taskbar: https://superuser.com/questions/666597/always-show-windows-c...
Task Manager is very limited, unfortunately. You only get CPU usage in the notification area.