Desktop System monitoring

Hello, I run windows xp professional. I look through web sites and see screenshots and always see that people running xp can display things like system usage and programs running and such on the desktop in little windows that stay there. I was wondering if you have to get a theme that does that or if there was anyway that i could get my system using to display on my desktop on the time just with a setting?

That sounds like the Task Manager....

Right Click on the task bar, or cntrl-alt-del and choose task manager.

You can set it (under properties?) to run in the tray, etc.

Is this what you mean?

yah like taskmanager but it is displayed and like integrated onto the destop perhaps im just on crack. http://files.themexp.org/screenshots/vs/2178.jpg something like that...i know its a small picture

Your theme image doesnt show up with a direct link....

I am not really sure what you are talking about, but I just remember that Norton has a Utility that does that (PC doctor?)

But its a 3rd party software that runs in the background.

What do you need it for? Are you having problems or do you think it just looks cool?

im running XP professional on 256 mb of Rd Ram wich is basically the minimum and i like to know what my cpu usage is.
sorry that im not clear its hard to explain

CPU usage is displayed in your task manager. TM will also display your ram usage.
Are you having problems? Adding a program to monitor your pc will eat up more ram. It needs to run in the background.

Although the 64 - 128 MB is the necessary minimum, 256 will be your minimum to really use XP. Your ram and cpu are intertwined, but they are different resources. If you are experiencing high cpu usage, that doesnt mean you are running low on memory.

What is your processor?

1.7 gigahertz

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=19114 on the right side of that picture, it shows the taskmanager thats a perfect exacmple of what im talking about. Is there anyway to do that or do i have to download that theme?

Not sure. It might be part of the theme. Open task manager and see what settings you have with it.

cool i learned something in here. . . thanks guyz!