The Windows operating system monitors several computer parameters and events in the event monitor. Users who prefer a direct visual indication of the system resources that are used can install third party software to do that. Prism Hud is one of those system monitors that can be installed.
The program is different from most computer monitoring applications as it sits quietly in the system tray until a value climbs over specified parameters. These are then shown as overlays on the Windows desktop giving the user a direct indication of the processes or hardware that is causing the increased usage of computer resources.
The values that are monitored can be configured in the program’s options. These can be reached by right-clicking the system tray icon.
The options are divided into two sections. The data is by default displayed in three panels with the possibility to remove panels from being displayed and moving so called prisms, which are the hardware, software and processes that are monitored around so that they are displayed in different panels.
Available prisms are cpu, memory disk, network and processes of which all but the first are divided into further sub-prisms. The process prism is for instance further divided into cpu, memory usage, page faults and IO Kbytes prisms.
Each prism comes with its own options that can be used to configure the thresholds that trigger the display of the prisms on the computer desktop.
Each panel on the desktop can be moved around independently from each other so that all are placed in the exact locations the user wants them to be.
Prism does not use lots of system resources which is surprisingly for a program of its kind. Cpu usage never went above 2 and the memory usage stayed at a steady 7.5 Megabytes of computer memory.
Prism Hud can be downloaded from the developer’s website. It is compatible with most Microsoft operating systems including Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
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http://www.utilhaven.com/prism/index.htm
Hello Martin,
What’s the URL for the above software
Thanx
http://www.utilhaven.com/prism/download.htm
http://www.utilhaven.com/prism/
For Prism Hud, you can check URL: http://utilhaven.com/prism/features.htm .
http://www.utilhaven.com/prism/index.htm
seems to be the page
http://www.utilhaven.com/prism/index.htm
Good thing that this Computer System Monitor Prism Hud can be run on Windows simply because I use windows based system. :)
Well I certainly won’t be using this application – from the comments, it looks like someone is trying a little too hard to get google rank