Desktop Status

The purpose of the Desktop Status application is to collect processor, memory, and storage usages of a computer running the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, and record these data with time stamps to files at a user-defined time interval. A graphical user interface (GUI) captures users' inputs and displays them on a plot for informational purposes. Microsoft Windows' Task Manager program, a prior art that is included in the Windows operating system, has the capability to collect processor and memory usages and display them on a graph, but cannot write the raw data values to files with time stamps at regular time intervals.