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Artist's Note

Current verison: 2.0

Similar to and what's available in the AdvancedCPU plug-in, this plugin allows you to get an arbitrary number of top processes based on memory consumption or CPU consumption.

In the screen shot, TopProcesses functionality was added to a customized version of the ABP skin (see the bottom two sections).

Note that the line spacing is not adjustable due to a current limitation of Rainmeter - spacing is based only on the font that you choose. If you want to adjust the spacing, ask for one process at a time, though this will not perform as well as asking for all of the processes at once.

Also note: This was developed in C#, so it suffers from the bug here (though only in Win 7 x32): . To avoid this, see my post here:

A sample .ini file is included in the zip for both measures, below lists just the CPU sample:

[MeasureTopCPU]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\TopProcesses.dll

: Indicates if this init entry should re-look at the process list
: 1 = Yes, 0 = No
: If you do more than one config entry, only ONE needs to do the ReQuery
ReQuery=1

: Pipe-delimited processess to exclude from the list (can handle wildcards, use the % or * character)
: GlobalIgnoredProcesses is MORE efficient than SpecificIgnoredProcesses as it filters globally (at the Perfmon query)
: If you use GlobalIgnoredProcesses to filter, processes will be excluded from all measures using the TopProcesses plugin
: GlobalIgnoredProcesses will only be applied to the measure with ReQuery=1
GlobalIgnoredProcesses=Idle|%Total|rundll32|wscript|userinit

: Pipe-delimited processess to exclude from the list (can handle wildcards, use the % or * character)
: SpecificIgnoredProcesses is LESS efficient than GlobalIgnoredProcesses as it filters per measure.
: The processes below will ONLY be filtered for MeasureTopCPU
: SpecificIgnoredProcesses can be used on any measure, regardless of ReQuery value
SpecificIgnoredProcesses=Rainmeter|svchost*

: Metric for which to determine top processes (CPU or Memory)
MetricType=CPU

: The top processes to find can be a single number (e.g. 0 = top one process) or a range (0-4 = top five processes)
ProcNums=0-4

: Format in which to return the results... any string including the following keys: %pName %pID %CPU %Memory
: You can also get a substring of a key; e.g. to trim the name to 8 chars use this format: s(%pName,0,7)
Format="%CPU%: %pName"

: A multiple of update timespans to actually perform the update (see ).
: Only pertinent when ReQuery = 1
UpdateDivider=5

[TopCPUText]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=Style
MeasureName=MeasureTopCPU
X=20
Y=188

Comments (7)

	report sgtevmckay says: Has there been any advancement on this to correct spacing issues. Fri, Mar 25th at 05:34pm (2 years ago)
	report cwfrizzell says: Using the included ini, I cannot get the CPU and memory processes to display at the same time. I can only get one or the other, and always the one listed first in the ini only. Any ideas? Sun, Mar 27th at 06:26am (2 years ago)
	report ch_rob says: re: (sgtevmckay) spacing... When writing the plug-in just last week, I investigated it and I did not come up with a way to control the spacing in rainmeter except what was noted above; by trying different fonts (which drive spacing) or by asking for one process at a time and manually spacing them as you need. re: (cwfrizzell) both measures at the same time... see my response to your post here: Sun, Mar 27th at 08:38pm (2 years ago)
	report ch_rob says: Updates... Per suggestions from jsmorley, added the ability to wildcard the filters with the use of % and *. Per suggestions from Chewtoy, added the ability to specify an UpdateDivider so that it does not have to query the perf counters on each update. Mon, Mar 28th at 08:15pm (2 years ago)
	report ch_rob says: Update... Per suggestions from GHOST®, added the ability to return a substring of a key. In the format string, use the following pattern: s(key,startChar, endChar) - where key is the key to trim - startChar is the zero-based starting character position - endChar is the zero-based ending character position. For example, to get the first 8 characters of the process names use s(%pName,0,7) Wed, Mar 30th at 09:09pm (2 years ago)
	report rover3500 says: I'm sorry I feel thick,theres loads files in zip,put top processes.dll in plugins(which one,the compiled one or the other?)and the test top processes.ini in a folder in skins,but just crashes badly,have to reset pc.Any help ps,have been looking for this for a while. Thanx Sat, Sep 3rd at 05:47am (1 year ago)
	report rover3500 says: I will use forums,apologies. Sat, Sep 3rd at 06:06am (1 year ago)
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