SysMetrix 1.0 released

Published on September 27, 2002 By Xymantix In WinCustomize News

SysMetrix 1.0 released! SysMetrix is a skinnable clock and metering application unlike any other. It provides system metrics in a variety of interesting, useful, and cool ways. It can monitor and report on over 40 different types of statistics such as time and date, CPU usage, memory usage, network traffic, unread email, and much more! It can represent the information in many different ways, such as plain text, bar graphs, histograms, sliders, and even analog-style gauges.

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Comments (Page 2)

Bear

on Sep 28, 2002

O'kay not so dumb...it works

Xymantix

on Sep 28, 2002

"Learn something new every day", as they say!

bmetelsky

on Sep 29, 2002

For some reason, the program crashes at startup if I place a shortcut to it in my startup folder (there are multiple users on this computer so I did not want to enable the 'run on startup' option. The workaround that I found is to edit the registry so that it starts under HKEY Current User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. I am posting this in case anybody experiences a similar problem.

bmetelsky

on Sep 29, 2002

Actually, the prog still crashes intermittently at startup.

grayhaze

on Sep 29, 2002

The only complaint I have is that you can't monitor network traffic on a particular adapter, but only on a specified IP. As someone who uses a dial-up ISP which provides a different IP each time I connect, the network traffic scales are rendered useless unless I go into configuration and re-select the IP each time I connect.

If this were changed, SysMetrix would be perfect!

werewolf

on Sep 29, 2002

Thanks for the new version.

At first I had a very hard time with new skins. I thought that my unzip program was broken somehow. Some of these files have 4 .ini files with the same name. I finally figured out that each .ini file corresponds to a skin version for 2, 3, or 4 drives being monitored. So I only extract the files I need into the theme folder. It took some playing around to figure that one out. If you just extract the skins into a theme folder, the duplicate files which end up getting extracted may not go together and may not produce the desired results.

Tarkus

on Sep 29, 2002

grayhaze - Yeah, I too thought that was weird that it monitors specific IP addresses instead of network connections. Fortunately, I have an almost static IP address.

werewolf - Thanks, I haven't tried installing any new themes yet, but that's a good one to keep in mind. I like the idea that authors are allowing to monitor a different number of drives.

CheeseCow

on Sep 30, 2002

Oww

This reminds me of GKrellM that I use in Linux. Except that this is 10x the eye candy. Great idea, freeform skins rock!

c242

on Oct 01, 2002

@werewolf : Hmm, mine for example were zipped with subdirs included. Do You have 'include subdirs' checked in Your unzip-prog ?

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