[![](/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shot_01.png "Shot_01")](/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shot_01.png)

Been a long time since I have updated this little project of mine. Yep, just checked, its [been almost a year ](/posts/windows-7-taskbar-monitor/)since.



Oddly enough this is one of my projects I actually use on a daily basis at home and work. Im not sure why I haven't updated it since as there have been some rather gaping bugs in it which have been very annoying but apparently not annoying enough to encourage myself to fix them or to stop using it.

Anyways, I have finally decided to fix some of the most anoying issues namely:

- It no longer crashes when the network is lost
- It now correctly reports the amount of physical memory used
  Theres no auto-updating feature built into the tool so if you are looking for the upgrade head over to the google code page to grab it: [https://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/downloads/list](https://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/downloads/list)

Wow! Just noticed that over 2000 people have downloaded the first version, didn't think it was that popular!

Oh yes, I have also uploaded the latest source for this version: [https://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/source/checkout](https://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/source/checkout)

Enjoy!

Well this will learn me!

A while back, I had an idea for a very simple application that would sit in your taskbar and give you at-a-glance performance info about your system, similar to[ iStat Pro for OSX](https://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/). This weekend I finally had time to clean up the code up for release.



The problem is that while looking for a couple of images for the app I happened to stumble across [Taskbar Meters](https://taskbarmeters.codeplex.com/), which is pretty much the exact same idea I had. Looks like he has made a better job out of it that me too :P

Ah well, I have decided to release my version of the app nonetheless:

[![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ScreenHunter_02-Mar.-14-21.45.gif "ScreenHunter_02 Mar. 14 21.45")](/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ScreenHunter_02-Mar.-14-21.45.gif)

You can open the app multiple times and set each one to monitor a different value:

[![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ScreenHunter_03-Mar.-14-21.46.gif "ScreenHunter_03 Mar. 14 21.46")](/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ScreenHunter_03-Mar.-14-21.46.gif)

I have also decided to post the source up on google code: [https://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/](https://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/)

Anyways you can grab version 0.1 here: [https://win7-taskbar-mon.googlecode.com/files/Windows7_Taskbar_Monitor_v0.1.zip](https://win7-taskbar-mon.googlecode.com/files/Windows7_Taskbar_Monitor_v0.1.zip)