Guide: How to check Hardware Information and Usage in Windows 10 PC
There are many desktop gadgets for Windows available on the Internet. Gadgets specific to CPU usage, RAM info and graphics memory information. We had shared before how to download these desktop gadgets on Windows 10. But there are not many options available with hardware related gadgets. There are also separate gadgets for each hardware-related information. Quick Hardware Check for Windows 10 | Shutterstock Now what if you get a simple application that stays on the screen and shows you ALL hardware information, usage and statistics? I would like to share with you a simple application for Windows that stays in the sidebar and provides you with all the hardware information and usage in real time.
Sidebar Diagnostics
We had previously shared some really cool hardware monitoring software for Windows. Of the list, Open Hardware Monitor is the most commonly used hardware monitoring software. It provides in-depth details of CPU, RAM, GPU and other hardware. Now you can get all this information in a sidebar. Sidebar Diagnostics provides all the necessary information about a particular hardware in a sidebar view of your screen, so you can quickly view and act on it. I won’t call it a desktop gadget, but it can be used as a desktop gadget. It’s open source and completely free. It works smoothly on Windows 10. You must have .NET Framework 4.5.2 or higher. Links to download it can be found in the link above itself.
As you can see in the screenshot above, it is placed on the right side of the screen. You can choose which side you want. First, let’s see what it displays right after you install it.
Hardware information displayed
Starting with the CPU, it displays the temperatures and clock speed along with the total load on the CPU and specific cores. It would be great if it could show temps of specific cores as available in Open Hardware Monitor. Not much information is available in the RAM section. Then there is a GPU monitor with enough info. As you scroll down, you will see the information about all drives and the network. You can further customize this sidebar by clicking the settings icon at the top or by selecting the option from the system tray icon.
Adjustment and settings
You can customize the appearance of the sidebar. It can be displayed on the left or right of the screen, change the background color and font color, and also adjust the width. If you have 2 or more monitors, you have settings for that too.
With the help of horizontal and vertical offsets you can place the sidebar wherever you want on the screen. Yes, the widget is not freely movable. It will be great feature add.
A great addon there are shortcut keys for this software. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly toggle to show / hide the sidebar. You also get a keyboard shortcut to switch the sidebar between multiple screens.
Graphs
If you want a graphical representation of some hardware metric, you have that too. You can access charts from the icon options in the system tray or from the top of the sidebar. It shows the graph of a particular statistic at the time duration you set.
It is one of a kind
This is the only widget-style hardware monitoring software available for Windows 10 that provides enough information for an average PC user. In the future I would like to see a movable sidebar and probably more hardware information on the monitors. ALSO SEE: Kiwi is a cool application monitoring and automation tool
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