Desktop Widgets
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Two independent Windows widgets. System Resources monitors your computer and keeps a detailed network journal. AI Limits shows subscription usage windows, reset times, credits and token activity. Use either on its own. Native C# and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF); the application interface is currently Russian.
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Public prerelease collection: v0.2.0 (AI Limits 1.1.0) and v0.1.1 (System Resources 1.1.1). Requirements: Windows 10/11 x64 and .NET Framework 4.8. macOS and Linux are planned separately; neither has an implementation or download yet.
| Application | Download | Start |
|---|
| System Resources 1.1.1 | Windows installer | Open the installer; it shows the card after installation |
| System Resources 1.1.1 | Portable ZIP | Extract to a writable folder and open ResourcesWidget.exe |
| AI Limits 1.1.0 | ZIP (v0.2.0) | Extract to a writable folder (or update via update-limits-widget.ps1), open LimitsWidget.exe, then enable the sources you need |
AI Limits v0.2.0 release notes and SHA-256 checksums · System Resources v0.1.1 release notes and SHA-256 checksums. Applications and installer are unsigned; Windows may warn about an unknown publisher. Follow your organisation's policies on managed computers.
The resources installer installs for the current user into a new/empty dedicated folder or a verified existing installation, adds shortcuts and an uninstall entry, and preserves configuration and window state on upgrade. Startup and the local temperature sensor are opt-in. Uninstall removes known application binaries while preserving settings, network history and unrelated files.
The optional checkbox “Локальный датчик температуры процессора (с драйвером PawnIO)” installs a separate local helper with normal Windows administrator approval. It can also be added later through “Установить локальный датчик температуры…” in the tray menu. The main widget runs as a regular user. The helper reads CPU sensors directly through the LibreHardwareMonitor library and exports a protected local file; it opens no network listener and starts no web server. Existing external LibreHardwareMonitor installations are left untouched. Widget uninstall offers helper removal separately; the shared PawnIO driver is retained. Design and verification boundaries.
Click the tray icon to show or hide a card. Default hotkeys: Ctrl+Alt+R for resources, Ctrl+Alt+L for limits. Tray menus offer themes, scale, opacity, pinning, startup and exit. First launch does not automatically enable Windows startup or change tray icon visibility. Data is stored beside the application, so ZIP distributions need a writable folder. Another copy may show an already-running instance of the same widget.
System Resources
For work and home computers, including investigating bottlenecks on older PCs:
- CPU: overall and per-logical-processor activity, history, frequency, temperature when a sensor is available, process/thread counts.
- Memory: used, available, committed and cached.
- GPU: load, video memory and available temperature, power, clock and fan readings.
- Disks: used/free capacity, reads/writes per drive and combined totals.
- Processes: leading CPU or memory users, grouped by executable name.
- Network: current speed, peaks, ping, link speed, daily traffic and connection events.
Actual application interface and system readings; additional sensors depend on hardware and configuration. Click for full size.
Network journal
Click the peaks in the card to open daily history. Each day shows a short-interval peak, the highest one-minute average, timestamps, percentage of configured capacity, traffic and average latency. Open a day for minute-by-minute speed and router/external-host ping graphs, losses, observed time and events:
- adapter link-speed changes, such as 1 Gbps to 100 Mbps;
- adapter disconnects;
- repeated external-host nonresponses, compared with router replies;
- sustained high latency.
Actual application interface; controlled, anonymised demo data. Local network-log files contain daily summaries, minute CSV files and events, retained for up to 400 days.
Measurement boundaries. The journal observes this computer while the widget runs, including local network traffic; it does not meter every device at home. The short peak depends on the sampling interval (about one second by default); the minute peak uses a rolling average of approximately 60 seconds. Capacity percentage uses the configured plan speed or adapter link speed, not a test of available Internet bandwidth. It helps describe observed load but cannot alone determine the right Internet plan.
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