Portable TinyResMeter

Portable TinyResMeter is a useful system monitoring application that gives users precise information about how much resources their computer is using in real time. This is the portable version of TinyResMeter which can be stored on pen drives.

Bare-bones interface

Coming with a very basic interface and lots of features that allow the users to change the outlining colors, font size, and position of the resource monitor on the screen, Portable TinyResMeter offers computer information in a raw package, giving users what they need: simple numbers and data.
If you're annoyed by its presence, you can set the app to remain always on top, automatically hide it while you hover the mouse cursor over it so you can see the screen behind it, and also set various transparency levels.

Massive list of monitored fields

PortableTinyResMeter allows a huge array of 33 fields that cover both hardware and software background processes. These vary from CPU to hard disks, RAM speed, and IP addresses that are surveyed in real time, and it provides the most accurate data possible about them.
Although users can set Portable TinyResMeter to monitor your computer's resources in a very unobtrusive manner (especially in the default mode), it lacks some consistency that today's stats enthusiasts would find mandatory.
For instance, you can set it to monitor CPU usage, but if you have a multi-core CPU, you won't be able to monitor the load of each core or their temperature. By comparison, you get very exact information about RAM load percentage in kilobytes.

Great flexibility

You can set it to become mostly transparent, lock its position, or dock it to the sides of your screen. Plus, you can even set it to remain on top to keep monitoring your hardware when you're stressing your machine further. All the while, its simplicity will eat minimum resources so your RAM will barely feel it in the background.
Although impressive in the amount of fields the Portable TinyMaster can cover, once you set it to survey all 33 fields at once, the application inevitably crashes.

Conclusion

Portable TinyResMaster is indeed a tiny master. It's powerful, unobtrusive, graceful, and maybe even elegant. You won't find here fancy layouts with stylish or aggressive fonts. It gives you only relevant numbers and a lot of them. However, don't push it too hard because it may crash, and you'll have to redo your settings all over again.