Traffic Monitor Alternative?

I know there are a variety of taskbar resource monitor apps out there. I've always liked Traffic Monitor because you could get it to blend in...i.e. look like it was meant to be there...matching Windows date/time format. However, it has failed to keep up with modern CPU and GPU generations and even the drivers it uses are now flagged by Windows as threats. What is a good, simple, alternative out there I should look at? My preferences:

-Customizable so using Segoe UI (or variant) to closely match Windows taskbar font. Transparent background so all you see is the text.
- CPU (usage and Temperature), GPU (usage and temperature), Network (upload/download usage/speed). Disk usage is a bonus.

Much appreciated.

mccmw said:

What is a good, simple, alternative out there I should look at? My preferences:

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AIDA64 Extreme.
You can have an OSD like I do, or Taskbar sensors. You can choose any font or text size, and it can monitor... everything...

Here, I just changed the text size and switched to Harry Potter font, for the CPU temp...

I got fooled by the topic title
in my world, Traffic monitor is network monitoring

Marie SWE said:

I got fooled by the topic title
in my world, Traffic monitor is network monitoring

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AIDA64 can monitor that too.
See the bottom of my OSD.


Besides the download and upload... RATE, you can also monitor all this network related stuff...





It took me about an hour to make that huge picture up above.
You should look at it.


You can even send the info to a smart phone or "any" LCD screen, as well.



And even if you have some really weird computer... the program's author is on their forum, and will custom write a beta version that will work... on the device you have. LOL

The author's account name is... FIERY



Way back in the day, this program was called Lavalys Everest.



Oh no, I changed the CPU temp text size, font and color... again!








All ya have to do is double click an item (in that huge configuration window in post #2), and you get this window...
You can also move the items you use, up or down as desired. I put all the ones on my OSD at the top.





And if you want your items in the System Tray instead... just click on "Sensor Icons" (RED dot)





And last but not least, you can drag the OSD to anywhere or any screen you want.
You can even have it... "always on top" if desired. Like keeping an eye on your temps when in a game... etc.

Like so...

Marie SWE said:

in my world, Traffic monitor is network monitoring

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Indeed, as far as I know there is no other app in the world, that shows the network speed in systray.

Anyway, Process Informer Canary shows CPU/GPU/Disk usage nicely, it helped me to find OneDrive's bug killing my NVMe.

Here's more wonderful stuffies....


Here's an SS of part of the Sensor Icons options... (see scroll bar on right)





Here's a floating (live) Sensor Icons panel...





AID64 Extreme is the Cadillac of monitoring software, and it's light on resources.
Task Manager view below...

Ghot said:

And even if you have some really weird computer... the program's author is on their forum, and will custom write a beta version that will work... on the device you have. LOL

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is that included Linux then. *LOL*

I looked at all pictures, so you dont feel you made them for nothing

When i monitor my network i want to see destination/source IP, data transfer, what program is generating the traffic.. etc.
Just up and down is not usefull more then you can see if there is traffic or not.... But that's meeeee

I have not set up any monitor software in my win10 IoT install.. longest uptime in one go on that one is 1hours so far.. But on my Linux machines, i have Temp, fanspeed, CPU load, CPU-frequency, memory, swap Lan+VPN load etc.
Then i have the heavy artillery that monitor slightest disk access and Lan+VPN network traffic in detail, processes on memory, cpu usage.. even NSA would be proud.

TairikuOkami said:

Indeed, as far as I know there is no other app in the world, that shows the network speed in systray.

Anyway, Process Informer Canary shows CPU/GPU/Disk usage nicely, it helped me to find OneDrive's bug killing my NVMe.

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I have not looked in to that kind of apps to windows since 2010ish I use Windows Resource Monitor when i want to know about disk/network activity