Barbecue

Barbecue is a small software application specialized in generating progress bars which can be applied to any domain of interest. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

Drop it on pen drives

You can take advantage of the program’s portability status and save it on USB flash drives or other devices. In addition, you may run it without administrative privileges on the target computer.
The best part about it is that you can access its features by simply running the executable file because the installation process is skipped. No settings files are left on the host PC because they are actually saved on the storage device.

Set up a brand-new progress bar

Barbecue gives you the possibility to create a progress bar by providing information about the title, type, number of items, total value, as well as foreground and background color. In addition, you are allowed to set or clear the date, duplicate progress bars, as well as save them to XML file format so you can easily manipulate them.
The application lets you preview the progress bars in a dedicated panel and check out detailed information about each meter, such as title, percentage, due date, as well as foreground and background color.
Tests have shown that Barbecue carries out a task quickly and without errors. It is not a resource hog so you can keep it running in the background without worrying that it eats up CPU and memory resources.

Bottom line

To sum things up, Barbecue has to offer basic features for helping you design custom progress bars, and is suitable especially for less experienced users. It is speedy and efficient, and takes little time to get used to its set of options.