silverazide/gadgets

Gadgets for Rainmeter

Gadgets

System monitoring gadgets inspired by the well-known AddGadgets.com Windows Sidebar gadgets.

Arguably, some of the best and most popular Vista and Windows 7 Gadgets for system monitoring were done by AddGadgets.com. Unfortunately, with the deprecation of the Gadget platform and outright banning of gadgets by some corporate policies, these gadgets have become obsolete. Sidebar Gadgets aren't supported in Windows 8 or later without hacks and workarounds and often they break after applying Windows Updates.

In 2015, I discovered Rainmeter, a free and open-source platform that enables creating skins that run on the Windows desktop. I re-imagined the most widely used AddGadgets.com gadgets in a new suite named Rainmeter Gadgets.

Get help on the Rainmeter forums

Features

All CPU Meter

• Displays CPU utilization for an unlimited number of CPUs and processors with up to 64-cores/128-threads each.*
• Supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architectures (skins for up to 4 CPUs or 4 NUMA nodes are provided, but more can be added).*
• Displays processor model and clock speed.
• Shows used, free, and total RAM available (per CPU or NUMA node if applicable).
• Shows used, free, and total page file available (optional).
• Shows core temperatures (optional, requires CoreTemp, SpeedFan, or HWiNFO; more info here).
• Shows CPU fan speed (optional, requires SpeedFan or HWiNFO; more info here).*
• Displays graphical line chart of CPU utilization, with RAM and page file percent usage (optional).
• Shows from 1 to 5 top processes by CPU usage (optional).
• Shows Task Manager or Resource Monitor when gadget is double-clicked.
• Scales to any desired size.

Battery Meter

• Displays the current battery status, including time remaining and current percentage remaining.
• Shows current voltage, charge and discharge rates, current and maximum charge capacity.
• Shows battery manufacturer/model.
• Displays power in either watts or milliamps.
• Supports automatic failover on systems having multiple batteries.*
• Shows Power Options when gadget is double-clicked.*
• Scales to any desired size.

Calendar

• Based on LuaCalendar, styled to match the Gadgets suite.*
• Supports localized month/day names automatically.
• Supports multiple appearance options similar to the original Windows Sidebar gadget: calendar only, calendar with large date, and large date.
• Scales to any desired size.

Chronometer

• Digital Clock displays time, date, day, week, and quarter of the year.
• Shows computer current uptime, total uptime, and session logon time (optional).
• Shows event countdown with customizable sound (optional).
• Includes configurable chime and multiple alarms with customizable sounds (optional).
• Supports Windows localized or custom time and date formats.
• Supports world times, can be adjusted for time zones and daylight saving time.*
• Supports having multiple clocks to allow monitoring time in multiple locations (info).
• Scales to any desired size.
• Includes Analog Clock variant, styled to match the Gadget suite.*
• Includes analog clocks ported from the original Windows Vista/Windows 7 Sidebar gadgets.

Drives Meter

• Displays disk information for up to 26 logical drives (fixed and removable only). Gadget dynamically adjusts to handle adding and removing drives.
• Shows used, free, and total disk space available.
• Displays percent disk utilization for each drive, plus the total.
• Shows throughput for each drive (read and write).
• Shows total bytes read/written since bootup for each drive on mouseover (optional).*
• Displays disk throughput graph (optional).
• Displays disk time percentage histogram (optional).
• Drive space bar graph changes color when disks are nearing capacity.*
• Shows Explorer when gadget is double-clicked.
• Opens drive in Explorer (or runs any user-defined command) when disk label is clicked.*
• Scales to any desired size.

GPU Meter

• Displays GPU model and clock speed (requires HWiNFO; more info here).
• Shows used, free, and total VRAM available (optional).
• Shows GPU temperature, core load, and memory clock speed.
• Shows GPU fan speed and percent utilization for up to 4 fans per GPU (optional).
• Shows core voltage or any 6 additional sensors per GPU (optional).
• Displays graphical line chart of RAM, core load, temperature, fan usage, and additional sensors (optional).
• Multiple GPU Meters provided to allow monitoring more than one GPU (for dedicated GPUs and 2-way SLI-equipped systems; for 4-way SLI systems, see this).*
• Scales to any desired size.

HWiNFO Meter

• Displays HWiNFO sensor data for up to 16 sensors (requires HWiNFO).*
• Displays graphical line chart of sensor data (optional).
• Supports having multiple HWiNFO Meters to allow monitoring multiple devices.
• Scales to any desired size.

Network Meter

• Shows data for all or selected network interfaces (info).
• Displays internal and external IP addresses (optional).
• Displays peak network throughput.*
• Shows inbound and outbound throughput in bits/sec and bytes/sec.
• Displays graphical chart of inbound and outbound network activity (optional). Does not require guesstimating your network speed, chart dynamically scales to handle both LAN and WAN traffic.
• Shows statistics for the current session and the total to date (optional).
• Shows network ping times and a link to any speed test website (optional).
• Indicates internet connectivity.
• Animated network icon shows network activity (in/out/both/neither/disconnected).*
• Performs external IP address and location lookup.
• Shows Network and Sharing Center when gadget is double-clicked.
• Includes dedicated Wireless Network gadget for monitoring wireless activity.
• Scales to any desired size.

Network Meter Pro

A precision network monitor with all the features of Network Meter, plus:

• More accurate network interface statistics monitoring, including data when Rainmeter is not running or no user is logged into the system.
• Not affected by Rainmeter restarts/refreshes.
• Not affected by network adapter configuration changes.
• Includes dedicated Wireless Network Pro gadget for monitoring wireless activity.
• Note: Requires installation of a Windows service (included).

Top Process Meter

• Displays 1 to 10 top processes, ordered by CPU/GPU/RAM/IO utilization.*
• Displays the amount of memory used by each process.
• Displays graph of total CPU/GPU/RAM/IO utilization (optional).
• Shows Resource Monitor when gadget is double-clicked.
• Scales to any desired size.

UPS Meter

• Displays UPS battery status (requires HWiNFO).*
• Displays estimated runtime remaining.
• Displays current battery percentage remaining.
• Shows current voltage.
• Shows current and maximum load.
• Shows Power Options when gadget is double-clicked.
• Scales to any desired size.

Weather Meter

• Displays the current weather for any location from The Weather Channel. Does NOT use the deprecated Wxdata feed.
• Displays data in metric or imperial units.
• Shows current temperature, forecast high and low temperatures, "feels like" temperature, current conditions, current location and station, humidity, visibility, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, and chance of precipitation.
• Shows current sunrise and sunset times, day length, and sun dial.
• Shows current moonrise and moonset times, moon phase and description, and moon dial.
• Shows moon zenith angle (tilt) and percentage illumination.*
• Shows complete 5 day forecast in a "flyout" window.
• Shows severe weather alerts for the current location.*
• Opens weather radar map for the observation location when location name is clicked.*
• Optional space-saving compact mode; gadget expands to full size on mouseover.
• Includes additional language translations: Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (SP), Slovak, Spanish (SP), Swedish, Ukrainian (info, source here).
• Supports having multiple Weather Meters to allow monitoring more than one location (info).
• Scales to any desired size.

Welcome

• When the Gadgets are installed, the Welcome gadget will be loaded. Use this to toggle Gadgets on and off and to enable the Update Checker.

Update Checker

• Automatically checks for and optionally installs new Gadgets releases (enable/disable from the Welcome gadget).

...get even more Gadgets!*

• Clipboard Meter
• Modernizer -- adds theming inspired by raiguard's ModernGadgets suite!
• Stopwatch

* Feature not part of original AddGadgets.com gadgets.

Requirements

Rainmeter 4.5.16 or later.
.NET Framework 4.8 or later.
GPU Meter, HWiNFO Meter, and UPS Meter require HWiNFO 7.02 or later.
Top GPU Meter requires Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update (v1709) or later.

Optional
CPU Meter can use either HWiNFO 7.02 or later, CoreTemp or SpeedFan to report temperatures and/or fan speeds.

Attribution

• All CPU Meter gadget based on All CPU Meter by james31231.
• Calendar gadget is LuaCalendar 6.0 by Smurfier, with scaling enhancement added by Eclectic-Tech, with localization and style mods by me.
• Chronometer and Network Meter gadgets use techniques from the System and Network skins in JSMeter10 by JSMorley.
• Update Checker gadget based on ModernGadgets Update Checker by raiguard.
• Weather Meter gadget uses the Weather.com JSON V3 include templates by JSMorley.
• Weather Meter gadget includes translations from VClouds Weather 2 by VClouds.
• Weather Meter gadget uses weather icons by JSMorley (and others) with modifications by me.
• Weather Meter gadget uses a Lua script from Sunset-Moonrise by Mordasius to calculate sun/moon times, with moon position/illumination code from ModernGadgets by raiguard with tweaks by Mordasius and me.
• Welcome gadget uses the ConfigActive plugin by JSMorley.
• Gadgets includes ColorPickerPlus by raiguard, with modifications by me.
  • ColorPickerPlus uses the CursorColor plugin by JSMorley.
  • ColorPickerPlus uses the Mouse plugin by NighthawkSLO.
• Additional code cleanup and tweaks by Milamber33.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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gadgets's Issues

dedicated gpu not working

compared to the previous one which i used the present version doesn't detect my gpu even when configured according to the index value shown in the notepad. and in addition to it some of the values are missing when compared to shared memory viewer

64-Core 128-thread CPU Meter

Unsure if you take any requested features, but any chance to update the gadget to support 128-threads in one gadget ?

Yes I'm one of those lucky ones that took a mortgage out for the 128-thread beast. AMD TR 3990X with an ASUS Zenith II Extreme Alpha.

I tried running the gadgets in 2 nodes but that doesn't work on the latest windows with my setup.

Absolutely love the gadgets btw !

P.S.: I do realize it will make it very long, but at least that is an option. I use an 8K resolution so I am fine, but I think it would fit on 4K screeens).

Cheers for now.

GPU Meter confused by "0 MHz" core clock

I have a new AMD RX 6800 and it pretty often reports 0 MHz core clock while idle, doing nothing.
It seems, like GPU Meter is confused by this, as whenever GPU clock goes to zero, it stops showing any values and reports it is not configured.

I had to switch it to use "GPU Clock (Effective)" sensor instead of "GPU Clock", to workaround it, as that one seems to somehow average the clock, so it never goes to zero.

I am using new 6.0.0 version of gadgets with Rainmeter 4.4.0.3438 and HWInfo 7.0.2-4430.

GPU Meter not detecting HWiNFO

As shown on the screenshot, I've been trying to get it to notice HWiNFO when it's running and was making sure detection settings on the app are checked off and everything, but I can't get this skin to display by GPU stats.

This is my first ever github post so if there's anything I need to add please let me know.

Weather Meter skin is broken; weather.com API key has changed

All skins based on JSMorley's weather.com JSON templates are broken as of 1/10/2022. TWC has changed their API to a different value. To fix this, open the WeatherComJSONVariables.inc file and change the APIKey variable as follows:

APIKey=21d8a80b3d6b444998a80b3d6b1449d3

Save the file and refresh the skin, and all should work. This will be corrected in the next release.

Add Ability to Monitor More than 1 GPU Fan

Graphics cards often have two or more fans. Add the capability to monitor up to 4 fans PER GPU.

Weather Meter broken again?

Weather meter is stuck on connecting again. It was working up until this morning with no issue. I just grabbed the latest from the releases and it didn't help (not sure if i was outdated or not).

CPU Usage Metter

Hi,
Love your Gadgets.
Can you please explain how do I set the cpu Clock (MHz)
Cannot find the place in the page Edit HWiNFO Settings.
Thanks

After a BIOS reset (and perhaps BSOD) there are errors

Never mind, rebuilding Windows Performance Monitor counters solved the errors :)

Only detecting Drive C:

v7.3.0 only seems to be able to 'see' Drive C: and D:, but no mapped network drives which are assigned letters...am I missing something that changed?

RAM not showing in All CPU Meter.

RAM Usage not showing in the All CPU Meter. Is this a DDR5 thing?

2- or multicolumn drives meter

With a lot of drives the drive meter skin gets very long. I want to request a setting to display at least 2 columns of drives and a wider graph to fit accordingly.

CPU Gadet report >100% CPU usage when actual usage is nowhere max of a core

I'm having an issue that is a bit odd. With my i7-10700, when the CPU is basically idle (Task Manager's details tab reports the idle process at 90%) and the clock is below about 4GHz, somehow CPU meter reports all cores at or above 100%.

I went to the wiki page and switched to legacy mode, and now during normal use, I don't see any cores hitting 100%

I'm wondering if there's an issue with non-legacy mode reporting to cause this?

With this example image, the right side might have a max core value of let's say 40%-80%

CPU usage over 100%.

I am using it with a NUC 10 Performance kit - NUC10i3FNK with Core i3-1010U.
As you can see in the attached image, the CPU usage is shown above 100%.
The same phenomenon does not occur on my other PC, the one with the i7-8700.
This may not be a problem in practical use, but please check it out

Rainmeter Version
Rainmeter 4.5.2.3541 (64-bit)
Build time: 2021-09-11 23:35:58
Windows 10 Pro 2009 64-bit (build 19043) - Japanese (1041)
Gadgets version 7.1.0
HWinfo version: 7.10-4540 64-bit

Enhance CPU Meter to invoke Resource Monitor or Task Manager on double-click.

Enhance the All CPU Meter gadget to invoke either the Task Manager or the Resource Monitor when the gadget is double-clicked. This will match the behavior of the original AddGadgets.com All CPU Meter.

Weather Meter ...connecting

Weather Meter has stopped working today just permanently connecting tried several methods of identifying my location and multiple locations. Have the Weather Channel blocked stuff again?

zip code in weather instructions

That was hilarious, after going through all the weather location options mentioned, the only one that worked was the one at the very end of the end... the zip code!

Network Drives

Is there a workaround for monitoring network drives?

Wireless meter displays the wrong internal IP

When using both wireless and ethernet interfaces, both the Wireless Meter gadget and the Network Meter gadget display the same internal IP, which is false. It appears to be always displaying the internal IP for the ethernet NIC. See below, the difference between the gadget and my wireless interface's actual internal IP.

Missing data from multiple meters

Since the latest Windows 11 update (presumably KB5010795), a number of meters have been missing data:

• CPU Meter does not report any memory data
• CPU Meter does not show overall nor individual core usage (all say 0%)
• All Top Meters show no processes (graphs appear to work)
• Drives Meter strangely all drives at 100% usage
• Drives Meter shows 0.000 kB/s up and down on all drives

I am not sure what broke with this update, but figured I'd pass this along in case it's actually not the update, and just me doing something silly. I updated to the latest Gadgets to rule out an old version.

Chronometer

Add option for a semicolon separator between minutes and seconds. As shown in picture.

7.1.1 Network Meter speeds are still multiplied when adapters not selected (set to 0)

Hey there,

Firstly, big thanks for your work on this project!

Since updating from 5.0.0 to 7.1.1 (yes...wow) I noticed the standard Network Monitor skin was reporting values which appeared to be multiples of the correct values (as reported by some on the forum). However, your patch notes for 7.1.1 mention this was fixed...

Corrected Network Meter regression issue where monitoring could report incorrect values if no adapters were configured.

The issue remains for me, though I can provide possible some extra info...

1. Having all 3 interface options set to "0" as they are when the skin is first installed results in the values which appear to be triple the true rate e.g. ~4MB/s download shows as around 12MB/s in the skin.
2. Having the Ethernet Interface option set to the correct card (I just used the auto-configure), but the other 2 interfaces set to "0", results in values which appear to be double the true rate.
3. Having the Ethernet option set, and the Wireless Interface set to blank (which is what I got when clicking auto-configure for that) results in the correct speed values being shown in the skin. "Other Interface" is still "0" in this case. As you'd know, this directly translates to the "InterfaceWireless=" line in "Network Varliables.inc" having the "0" removed...perhaps a simple fix is to pre-configure this file to have the Ethernet and Wireless interfaces (or all 3) set to blank, instead of to "0"? I tested this with success.

For reference, the computer I figured this out on has 2 Realtek GBE devices, and no wireless network devices. Only 1 of the 2 GBE cards is actually in use, the other had no cable attached during testing.
Windows 10 20H1 b19043.1288

Help loading weather meter.ini

Loading the weather meter.ini on other PC's works fine, but I have one that will not load for some reason, and I am not sure where to find the answer. I was wondering if you had a chance to look this over.

When loading the ini.

Refreshing skin (Gadgets\Weather Meter\Weather Meter.ini)

Then the next line is:
Invalid TimeStampFormat: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S (Gadgets\Weather Meter\Weather Meter.ini - [@CurrentObservationDate])
Invalid TimeStampFormat: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S (Gadgets\Weather Meter\Weather Meter.ini - [@CurrentObservationTime])
Invalid TimeStampFormat: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S (Gadgets\Weather Meter\Weather Meter.ini - [@CurrentSunriseTime])
Invalid TimeStampFormat: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S (Gadgets\Weather Meter\Weather Meter.ini - [@CurrentSunriseTime])

I have more of the plugin in a word document. But I was unsure what you needed.

Thanks for your time! Best skins of all time!

Scaled down gadgets are transparent

The gadgets become transparent when scaled down to .88. Opacity set to 255.

This happens in version 7. This did not happen in version 5.5.

Core Voltage not shown in GPU meter

Hi,
I configured the CPU- and GPU-Meter and nearly all values are shown.
Using the latest version 7.2.0 of the Gadgets for Rainmeter. Rainmeter is latest version.
But the core voltage of the GPU isn't shown.
(RPM at 0 is right, HWInfo update here no values, have to check it in parallel)

Why the core voltage isn't shown?
Thanks for helping.

Actual status:

Values in HWInfo:

Exported values to gadget:

CPU Meter shows temps with decimals for AMD CPUs

When using HWiNFO 7.x and when using an AMD Threadripper CPU, temperature values are being reported to 1 decimal place. Revise the code to round values to zero decimals as in previous versions.

peak bandwidth

peak bandwidth means max between IN or OUT and not IN+OUT

any way I can modify the

[MeasureMaxBytesPerSec]

to output MeasureNetIn + MeasureNetOut

Request SNMP Network Monitor

Hi,

First, congratulations for this good job! 👍

Second, I'm not sure if you accept requests, but I'm missing the SNMP Network Monitor widget/gadget for monitoring the Router:

I hope you want to take a look at it!
Regards.

CPU name string too long (11th gen )

the 11th gen CPU names is way to long to fit in the window of All CPU Meter
I manually edited the config file to Substitute="\(R\)":"","\(TM\)":"","\(tm\)":"","Intel ":"","AMD ":"","CPU ":"","@.*":"","\s$":"","11th":"","Gen":""
so it now displays Core i7-11700K instead of 11th Gen Core i7-11700K

Some of the gadgets cause massive input lag with Multiplicity

So to be more precise, the gadget that causes the most lag is the calendar (with day) widget. When this specific widget is active it causes significant delay with a secondary machine on a Multiplicity KM (Stardock product)

When I have the all CPU widget AND the calendar widget going, the secondary computer is all but unusable.
We think this has something to do with checking the core count too frequently, as well as the calendar checking the day too frequently. Something along those lines.

The specs for this machine are
CPU: AMD Ryzen TR 3990x (64 cores)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 3200 Mhz (256gb)
OS Drive: WD 2TB nvme M.2 SSD
OS: Win 10 Pro 64bit
Motherboard: Aorus TRX40 Master
GPU: EVGA RTX 2080 TI FTW3 Ultra Gaming

Other software tested / compared lag when task killed / exited
Windowblinds
iCue
Skype
Unity Hub
Wallpaper Engine
Steam
Origin
Epic
CCleaner
Adobe Creative Cloud

None of the above software had any affect up or down when running or not.

At one point the only 2 things I had running (other than vanilla Windows services) was Multiplicity and Rainmeter, and I still incurred a lot of lag.

I alternated and other skins do create some input delay depending on what they do. For instance audio visualizers tend to cause some...But still not as much as that calendar gadget.

I appreciate the work you're doing and the time it takes to improve this. Thank you.

Any help you can be with this would be greatly appreciated.

Top CPU Meter wrong measure

Top CPU Meter show lower cpu usage then the Task Manager. It feels like the Task Manager shows the correct values.
Windows 11 22H2
Gadgets 7.3.0
Rainmeter 4.5.13.3632

CPU Meter "Temp" Color

Hello,
Got issue or maybe feature missing, but when i change the Core 1 color it changes the Temp too (as i'm not using per core temps bc i have AMD) so the Temp color is linked to the Core 1 color and i'd like to make them different colors
Can you do something about this ?

CPU Gadget no longer showing Clock speed if HWiNFO is running.

Using latest stable version of HWiNFO and gadgets.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Replace HWiNFO

Starting with version 7.00, HWiNFO64's free version is limiting shared memory time to 12 hours unless you pay for the Pro version. Recommendation is to find something other than HWiNFO for the gadgets that use them.

I have downgraded to HWiNFO64 v6.42 (not easy to find, I found it at https://www.filepuma.com/download/hwinfo64_6.42-27806/) in the meantime.

Drives Meter: Can you modify DiskThresholdFull and Warn?

I've tried to modify the ini to lower the Full threshold from 10% to 5% free to make the drive not show a red bar. I've had no success.

All CPU Meter and Drives Meter are crashing Rainmeter since today.

I just can't find what's going on. Everything worked as intended yesterday. I am on the newest version of Rainmeter (4.5.13.3632 64-bit) and HWInfo (7.22-4731) and Windows 10 with all current updates. I think there were some updates yesterday (namely KB5011831 and KB5012157). Today rainmeter suddenly won't show up on start. So I, one by one, deactivated every skin and tried starting it up. If I deactivate All CPU Meter and Drives Meter in the Rainmeter.ini, rainmeter starts as normal and all other skins are working. I also got GPU Meter, Network Meter, Clock and Weather Meter of your suite aktive and they are working fine. Only CPU and Drives are not working anylonger. Every time i activate them, rainmeter crashes without an error-message.

CPU Meter No Longer Able to See Utilization On 1950X in NUMA Mode

After updating from 5.5.1 to 6.0.2, CPU Meter might have lost the ability to measure multiple NUMA nodes? Under Distributed Memory/UMA mode the charts work just fine, cores 1-32 all show load. Under Local Memory/NUMA mode I lose the ability to see any utilization of the second CPU die, and I can only see activity for cores 1-16.

Network Meters do not report activity if duplicate/orphaned network adapters exist

It is possible to have multiple network adapters with identical names. This is frequently observed when upgrading VirtualBox, which can leave behind bad virtual network adapters that can never be removed without taking extreme measures with the registry, or reinstalling Windows from scratch. This appears to also be possible with, in at least one case, USB network adapters, which can leave behind multiple orphaned adapters with the same names.

In this case, a user reports the presence of 16 identically named network adapters. Neither the "pro" nor "non-pro" Network Meters can handle this case properly. NetMonitor fails because stats from the invalid adapters overwrite valid one, and Rainmeter itself fails because it cannot retrieve stats by name because it finds the wrong adapter (presumably the first in the list). Rainmeter's Interface=Best option is the only thing that works correctly.

Enhance NetMonitor to attempt to exclude invalid adapters without excluding ones that are simply down or disconnected. Also, correct a bug in the non-Pro Network gadgets that do not properly report "session" stats when no network adapters are configured.

Hiding Graphs

Hi, I'm trying to disable graphs for Network, Drives, CPU and GPU meters. I commented lines below "Graph" sections but now I can't figure out how to resize gadgets to fit the new heights (removing blank sections at the bottom).
Can you please tell me where I need to modify files ?

Edit: typos

Weather Meter in English and using the metric system

I have a minor issue showing Temperature and Visibility in the metric system (i.e. °C and km) while also showing the phase of the moon in English. It would seem the latter is not translated since it'll keep the language of whatever LocaleName I choose.

For instance, in WeatherVariables.inc I change the following:

DisableLocale=1
LocaleName=de-DE
Lang=EN

and I get the following:

The 5-day forecast will also retain week days in German as well as particular weather features such as thunderstorms, etc.

Perhaps these issues have everything to do with weather.com and not the gadget as such...

Otherwise, I just stumbled over the Rainmeter gadgets (and finally got rid of the antiquated original MS ones) and I truly appreciate all the efforts which have gone into these - and particularly I like the remakes done by SilverAzide, so many thanks and cheers!

Gadgets causing Rainmeter to hang?

Hi,
I am experiencing all of the gadgets being frozen, and the Rainmeter icon is also frozen (when I rightclick on it, nothing happens).

I have followed your documented procedure for rebuilding the perfmon databases, twice, rebooting afterwards each time, and I get the same result. The gadgets paint very slowly during the bootup, and then are frozen, as is Rainmeter itself.

I tried uninstalling rainmeter and downgrading to the previous version but that didn't help. I have updated to the latest version of your gadgets and that didn't help.

One thing that seems a bit odd that I noticed, is that when I click on the "show desktop" button, the clock shows the correct time, but the second hand is frozen, and the clock does not advance while I am on the desktop.

I also did an SFC /scannow, and had no errors, and did a DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth to verify that my windows installation was healty -- no issues there.

This started happening within the last couple of weeks. I can't pinpoint it to any individual event, but it could be related to a recent windows 10 update?

Any help would be appreciated.

This is on an HP z460 workstation with an 8 core Xeon E5-4655 v4, 64GB memory running windows 10 pro 64bit 21H2 with all updates, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB video card using the more "stable" "enterprise" "Studio Driver" (installed after the "Geoforce game ready driver" started to hang my system when the screen was turned off).

Philip

GPU meter problem

hi Silver Azide

my computer GPU is ASUS TUF RTX3080 LHR,
rainmeter is 4.5.13 ,HWiNFO64 is 7.20
and your Gadgets is 7.20

but the GPU meter is not configured
is that setting or somthing wrong?

All CPU Meter - page %

Thank you for maintaining and updating this skin.

In "All CPU Meter" the Page % displays as 0% when it should be 6%. I believe you missed the "Percentual=1" when you updated this gadget. I added it and everything looks good.

[MeterPercentPage]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=StyleTextBarPercent
MeasureName=CalcPagePercentUsage
FontColor=#BarColorPage#
Y=(12 * ((#HidePage# + 1) % 2))r
Percentual=1
Hidden=#HidePage#

Very slow Drives Meter load

Starting either yesterday or today my Gadgets 7.2.0 layout started taking a long time to come up. (It could have changed before then but I only reboot my PC or restart Rainmeter when required.)

I just now was prompted to update Rainmeter to 4.5.11.3607 and did so. The Rainmeter icon showed up immediately on the taskbar but the gadgets took a long time to appear.

I unloaded and loaded each gadget. All of them load instantly (less than 1 second) except the Drives Meter which took 23 seconds to load. I am not aware of any other changes to my hardware or software.

CPU total temp

HWiNFO only reports a temperature for the entire CPU, rather than for each individual core (probably because my CPU doesn't have sensors for that). There should be an option for just having the total/average temperature for the entire CPU, instead of having it on a core-by-core basis.

Allow hybrid units to be shown in weather gadget

Please enhance the weather gadget to allow showing hybrid units. Both celsius and fahrenheit.

Chronometer drifting to GPU enhancement

I like the chronometer but I wanted to get rid of the Day-Week-Quarter line so I modified Digital Clock.ini (attached.)

I added variable HideDWQ, setting it to 1 hides the line and shrinks the clock, setting it to 0 leaves the clock as is. I did not make the changes to Settings.ini to make this a complete enhancement. All modified lines have the original line commented out with ";DAS original line" followed by the altered line.

Fell free to incorporate or ignore this.

Thanks again for all your work on the Gadgets,
Doug

Digital Clock.txt

CPU Clock or Temp - Only 1 works

I just did an upgrade from i7-8086k to an AMD 5900x. I have everything working except if I tell it to report Index 0 for CPU Temp, then the clock speed stops reporting. If I remove 0 from the config file for the HWiNFO_CPU0_DTS_CoreMax=0 (0 is the index for the Tdie) then the clock speed starts reporting. Its like both can't run together. I even tried making it only report overall temp with that, and same issue.

CPU meter not showing AMD 2700X performance/percent usage

Hello,

Since upgrading to HWiNFO 7.0X, the CPU meter has not been showing performance/usage information for my 2700X and I can't figure out why.

What I've tried so far

1. Uninstall/reinstall HWiNFO, Rainmeter, Gadgets
2. Use different sensors. E.g. Core Clock vs Core Effective Clock
3. Use legacy mode
4. Shared memory = on

Versions

HWiNFO64: 7.02-4430
Rainmeter: 4.4.0.3347 (beta, 64 bit)
Gadgets: 6.0.2
Win 10 home, version 20H2, build 19042.928

Rainmeter log

The Rainmeter log will show the following lines over and over again:

DBUG (13:15:37.040) Gadgets\All CPU Meter\All CPU Meter.ini - [MeasureCPUPercentPerformance]: Could not find a category called Processor Information
DBUG (13:15:37.283) Gadgets\All CPU Meter\All CPU Meter.ini - [MeasurePagePercentUsage]: Could not find a category called Paging File

Screenshots

Typical gadget tab sensor setting:

Files

~30s of HWiNFO sensor log, HWiNFO.inc, HWiNFOIndexList.txt:
HWiNFO sensor log, settings, index list.zip

Check for Updates

Hi SilverAzide, I have a question about “Check for Updates” in Gadgets. Right now I see a notification for 7.1.1 - 2021-09-18. This update doesn’t interest me so I click “Remind me later” but the notification recurs at intervals. Is there a way I can avoid notifications for 7.1.1 - 2021-09-18 and instead get a notification for the next release?