![]() ![]() Microsoft has been working on improving the Widgets experience over the past year. You could also argue that the system resources widget that you can access from the Game Bar (Win + G) is better to monitor the performance in games, as it offers more information such as frame rate per second (fps), RAM and VRAM usage in an overlay that you may pin on the screen. That said, the utility of the Task Manager can't be replaced by widgets. While Dev Home has been designed to help developers, there is no reason why it can't be useful for regular users who wish to understand their computer's performance without opening the Task Manager. Similarly, the GPU button allows you to view your integrated GPU and your dedicated graphics card's usage details. The Network widget displays your network's usage, as well as a button to switch to the next network adapter. The CPU Widget lists 3 actively running processes that you may force quit by clicking on the End Process button. You may want to switch to the large size of the widgets to access the full data that they provide, because there are some buttons that you can click to perform some actions. The widgets can also be pinned to the Dev Home app's dashboard.Īll widgets from Dev Home display a graph to indicate the performance of your system, although they don't appear to be updating in real-time, though this could be a bug related to the Widgets board itself, and not the app's widgets. You don't need to have Dev Home running to access the widgets, i.e. Select the widget that you want to use, and it will be added to the Widgets board. ![]() Hit the + button at the top, and you will see options for 5 new widgets: CPU, GPU, Memory, Network and SSH Keychain.ĥ. Click on the Widgets button on the Taskbar.Ĥ. Open the app and wait for it to complete the setup process, after which you will be able to access your dashboard.ģ. (requires Windows 11 21H2 (build 22000) or later)Ģ. ![]() Download the Dev Home Preview app from the Microsoft Store or Git Hub. How to get the new system resources widgets in Windows 11ġ. The best part about this is that you don't need to be on the Windows 11 Insider Channel, so you can use it on the stable release. Finally, there is something useful in the widgets panel. ![]()
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