Taskbar Performance

Taskbar Performance is a very simple tool that will help you better understand the resources you have at your disposal when using your PC. It can give you readings for each particular component that is relevant for your machine starting with CPU and ending with battery, if it applies to your situation. The way it shows this information is through the taskbar, hence the name. It can be of great help if you're trying to use every last bit of power your PC has.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this app, when compared to similar software, is the strange placement of the resource meters. The taskbar will have one entry for each particular component in your PC. Thus, you'll have one entry for CPU, one for GPU, one for battery, one for RAM, and one for Drive/HDD/SSD.

You can separately launch the meter for one component, or all of them at once through a unified launcher. In terms of aspect, there isn't much to discuss, especially since you won't be dealing with much of an interface. The info is displayed in preview bubbles n the taskbar. You'll have to hover over each taskbar entry to see the info.

While the application isn't something to necessarily write home about in excitement, it can prove useful to those looking to know exactly how many resources are available at a given time. It avoids filling up your desktop with useless gauges, but on the other hand, it takes over quite a chunk out of your taskbar. At this point, one has to figure out if this app can help in a certain situation or if it will worsen it.

Taskbar Performance is without a doubt a useful app. It's innovative in the way it displays info, yet it can take too much space in your taskbar, it doesn't offer extensive information and it also feels at times as if it hasn't been developed as a finished product.