https://github.com/XhmikosR/perfmonbar

Displays performance counters on the Windows Taskbar
https://github.com/XhmikosR/perfmonbar

c-plus-plus cpp dll monitor monitoring perfmon windows

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Displays performance counters on the Windows Taskbar

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/XhmikosR/perfmonbar
• Owner: XhmikosR
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2012-08-27T21:08:52.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-10T17:51:29.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T14:43:38.564Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: c-plus-plus, cpp, dll, monitor, monitoring, perfmon, windows
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://xhmikosr.github.io/perfmonbar/
• Size: 1.18 MB
• Stars: 388
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 40
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Perfmonbar

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## Notes

* You will have to edit the default [`config.xml`](https://github.com/XhmikosR/perfmonbar/blob/main/src/config.xml) to match your system.

* The default `config.xml` will **not** work for **non-English** systems. You have to adjust the config file, see below.

* For the known issues see [issues](https://github.com/XhmikosR/perfmonbar/issues).

## Configuration

The `config.xml` file must be adapted in the following cases:

* You have a non-English Windows system running. The search strings in the `config.xml` file must be adapted to the language of the operating system, otherwise the corresponding strings will not be found by Perfmonbar and nothing will be displayed in the taskbar.

* You want to display other information in the taskbar. To do this, you have to find the appropriate and available strings and change them in the `config.xml` file.

* You want to change the appearance of the information in the taskbar. To do this, you need to change the corresponding properties in the `config.xml` file.

### Where is the `config.xml` file?

Usually, the `config.xml` file can be found under:

```text

C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\PerfmonBar\config.xml

```

To quickly get to the directory, you can simply type `%APPDATA%\PerfmonBar`.

### How to find the desired settings?

Open a console and run the command `typeperf -q > counters.txt`

Then you can search the file `counters.txt` for the desired performance counters that are available on your computer. The counters are unfortunately called differently in every single language.