After spending a bit of time playing with Conky I wondered if there was a Windows option. Turns out there is – it is called Samurize and it comes with a functional GUI editor to make all your system monitors very easily. At the moment I have quite a fascination with the clock style meters. A picture of my configuration is below and you can get the clock meter configuration from here.
The bottom left circles show my hard disk usage (top circles) and my network rx/tx. The ones above that show CPU0 and CPU1 and also RAM usage.
The big one in the middle is a clock that ticks round with seconds, minutes, hours, day, month working from the outside in.
It’s quite a nice funky addition to my desktop. I like it!