SysMetrix 1.0 released

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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.

Click here to see SysMetrix in action: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=28

Click here to learn more about SysMetrix: http://www.xymantix.com/sysmetrix/index.html

Click here to download it now: http://www.xymantix.com/sysmetrix/download.html
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've only been using it for two days, but it is a nice little application. The email notifier and recycle bin alone justify it.
Besides, there are some pretty nice skins!
Thanks for a good app.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me runs off to get the latest version...
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wonderful app - for anyone who hasn't already, TRY IT!
Thanks Nick
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nice looking but..., After running for a few hours makes my XP system so slow it's just about frozen. Must reboot.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That is definetely not Sysmetrix causing that. I have it running on 6 (2k & XP) machines without any problems.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The only thing that I'm aware of that can be slow is monitoring an offline network drive. IOW, you mapped a drive to a remote machine, and choose to monitor it. Later, it goes offline. If you monitor it in SysMetrix, or try to view in it explorer, or actually attempt to deal with it in ANY manner, it will "hang" for a long time and eventually time out. That's the way Windows works.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just barely downloaded and installed it. Very impressive application! Lots of options, and easy to modify existing themes. Nicely done.

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, so I'm dumb...

. I've got the program loaded, and now what. How to change that skins? Any info would be great.

Sorry, to say that I'm not a skinner, but only a lowly Hollywood Writer, and after staring at the screen for 16 hours a day, I like changes.

Have any advice how to associate the downloads.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To skin, right-click on the window and choose Configure or whatever it says. Then you just double-click on a theme from the theme browser.

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks Tarkus, yet, I'm still dumb. Perhaps, I should have explained a bit...O'kay, so I download from Wincustomizea skin from SysMetrix to the Desktop...and now what.

Or better yet, lets say I've already a skin for SysMetrix, it now sits on the desktop...now what...or,am I so lame to know that it has automatically been associated with SysMetrix?

Just a writer.

Thanks again for your input.


Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Bear, it's all a matter of placement! SysMetrix has a directory named "Themes" underneath it. So if you installed in the default location it will be "c:\Program Files\SysMetrix\Themes". Just unzip the zipped up theme file into a directory with the same name as the theme, underneath the "Themes" directory. As an example, you download the MIIG.zip theme. Unzip it so that the files end up in "c:\Program Files\SysMetrix\Themes\MIIG". After that, just goto the configuration like Tarkus mentioned and it will be there!
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I DO like this proggy...
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Learn something new every day", as they say!
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually, the prog still crashes intermittently at startup.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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!
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.

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Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.

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Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oww

This reminds me of GKrellM that I use in Linux. Except that this is 10x the eye candy. Great idea, freeform skins rock!
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
@werewolf : Hmm, mine for example were zipped with subdirs included. Do You have 'include subdirs' checked in Your unzip-prog ?

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