Show and Alert Memory , CPU on windows 10

Giovanni Peppa 1

want to know which tool I can show CPU and Memory usage on windows 10 (laptops, PCs).
The alerts that I want is when a memory or cpu consumption is exceeded, it emits a pop up or an email alert on the screen. The purpose is that the user can know the reason why the machine is slow, suddenly see what it is consuming and have some option to release resources.

In the begining I was thinking to add a windows gadget but Microsoft disable this gadgets for security reason and when I was searching i found gadget Rainmeter that its similar to the old microsoft gadgets.

But I want to know If Microsoft recommed some tool to do this job or if you know some tool to test it.

And I appreciate your commets if you heard about Rainmeter.

2 answers

S.Sengupta 15,111 Reputation points MVP

2022-09-09T00:40:53.863+00:00

Use Resource Monitor as default tool.

To open this program, just click Start, then Run, then type Resmon to open the Resource Monitor.

If you like to know more then download and install Hwinfo
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Giovanni Peppa 1 Reputation point

2022-09-09T21:40:41.193+00:00

Hi SSengupta
Thanks for your advice.
I have a doubt, there is a way to get this info using power shell? or .Net? I can develope a program that launch pop ups when the laptop or pc has a high consume of CPU or Memory? Its necessary to know some library or dll to use for this program? The Windows 10 has it?

S.Sengupta 15,111 Reputation points MVP

2022-09-10T00:09:35.207+00:00

In PowerShell:

Get-Counter '\Memory\Available MBytes'
Get-Counter '\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time'

To get a list of memory counters:

Get-Counter -ListSet memory | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Counter:

This gives you CPU load.

Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Average | Select Average

This gives you CPU load.

Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Average | Select Average

Ref:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6298941/how-do-i-find-the-cpu-and-ram-usage-using-powershell

Giovanni Peppa 1 Reputation point

2022-09-12T16:12:07.303+00:00

thanks,
But When I try to execute one of these commands appears this message:
PS C:\Users\Giovanni> Get-Counter -ListSet memory | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Counter
Get-Counter : No se puede encontrar ningún conjunto de contadores de rendimiento en el equipo localhost que coincida
con el siguiente: memory.
En línea: 1 Carácter: 1

Get-Counter -ListSet memory | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Counter

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-Counter], Exception

FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoMatchingCounterSetsFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCounterCommand

Why?

MotoX80 31,571 Reputation points

2022-09-12T18:47:01.727+00:00

Are your counter names in English or Spanish?

Get-Counter -ListSet m* | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Counter
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Castorix31 81,636 Reputation points

2022-09-09T23:42:00.69+00:00

You can program it yourself with APIs like PDH
For example, an old MS sample in C++ : How To Retrieve Performance Counter Value Using PDH
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Giovanni Peppa 1 Reputation point

2022-09-12T17:58:38.36+00:00

Thanks for the advice,
Im reviewing the article and mention:
Article ID: 287158 - Last Review: November 21, 2006 - Revision: 3.3
APPLIES TO
Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface, when used with:
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition
the operating system: Microsoft Windows XP
Keywords:
kbhowto kbapi kbkernbase kbperfmon KB287158

Its olnly for this Windows? I can use it for Windows 10 and 11?
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