Windows 10 has a built-in feature that lets you put a display overlay of resource usage in your system. You can keep an eye on the status of your CPU, memory, disk, network, or GPU at that instant of time. To load the floating overlay of your performance panels on your screen, there are two methods that you can use. You can either enable this feature directly from the task manager or use the Game Bar.
You could be using any application, and the floating overlay on the usage status of your system’s resources will display all the time. Now, both the methods are not easy to figure, and some might be confused about exactly doing it. Here, in this article on both methods you can use to get the floating overlay you require. So without further ado, let’s get into it.
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First, we will go for the task manager method, followed by the Xbox Game bar method.
Using the Task Manager:
- Right-click on the taskbar and choose the “Task Manager” option.
- Then click on the options menu in the task manager window and click on the “Always on top” option.
- Then click on the Performance tab.
- Here, you will see options of resources on the left side. You will see the CPU, GPU, memory(RAM), Disk, and Network here.
- On the right side of the window, you will see complete details for the resource you have selected on the left pane.
- Double-click in any region on the graph on the right side, and it will display the details that were already present on the right side in a floating overlay.
- Double-click on that overlay again, and you will see the same window with the left and right side. Choose a different resource on the left side and see its details by click on the graph in the right again.
In this way, you can switch around the different resources in your system and see the status of each one of them quickly. You can close the overlay anytime you want by click in the close window icon at the top.
