Celebrating 20 Years!!
of “it’ll be fixed in the next release”…
Real Time System Information At Your Fingertips
Desktop Info attaches to your desktop and displays system information in real time.
Perfect for quick identification, walk-by monitoring and simple remote monitoring of production servers, test farms or your own personal computers. Great for techs to quickly acquire critical system information of patient machines. There is also a regular window version and screen saver. Uses little memory and low cpu. The display is fully customizable with a ton of options.
Features:
- Full 64-bit and 32-bit builds in version 3
- Display every kind of metric about your Windows system
- Four varieties: attach to the desktop, normal Windows application, screen saver, Windows service
- Extensive display and data formatting options
- Eight different chart styles in version 3
- Custom WMI queries
- Custom Performance Counter (PDH) queries
- Visual alerts
- Background collections
- Arithmetical expressions
- External command execution (inc. Powershell)
- Configurable buttons and hyperlinks
- Monitor a specific process memory usage
- Monitor files, registry keys and event logs
- Network connections and traffic
- Display times in different time zones in version 3
- Remote monitoring
- Export to file (html/xml/rtf/txt/json)
- Low priority cpu
- Adjustable transparent background
- Fonts and colors configurable
- Font scaling on the fly
- Logic to control which items are displayed
- Pull data from http/https server
- Log raw data to csv files
- Display text from a file
- Display data from a csv file
- Display registry values
- Display images in version 3
- Retrieve images from web site
- Generate Custom Bar Codes
- Generate TOTP Codes
- Unlimited number of pages of information
- Custom external data collectors
- Optional threaded execution
- Data sharing
- Supports multi-display configurations
- Supports Windows display scaling (zoom)
- Application logging to text file and/or Windows Event Logs
- Full Unicode multi language support
- Comprehensive reference manual
- Portable
- Windows Installer
- Much more…
You can leave bug reports and ideas in the discussion forum.
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Version: 3.22.0 Full Windows 64-bit/32-bit builds. Works on Windows 7 and up. Last Update: May 2026 Download Zip File Download Installer |
Version: 2.11 Legacy 32-bit version. Works on Windows 2000 and up. Last Update: June 2021 Download |
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