The idea is very simple. I like iStat Pro for the mac OS (http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/) and I wanted similar system performance at-a-glance on windows too.

Seeing the new features in the Windows 7 taskbar I considered it would now be possible to present some very basic visual information in the taskbar.

New In v0.3

Blog post: http://mikecann.co.uk/personal-project/windows-taskbar-monitor-v0-3/

+ There is now an option to disable the animated progress bars, some users were finding them anoying

+ There are now two command-line arguments you can use to define which monitor starts up and whether or not to show the animated progress bars.

New In v0.2

Blog Post: http://mikecann.co.uk/personal-project/windows-7-taskbar-performance-monitor-v0-2/

+ Fixed some crashes and other annoying issues

In v0.1

Blog Post: http://www.mikecann.co.uk/programming/windows-7-taskbar-monitor/