Ensure the Game Bar is enabled and check its keyboard shortcut here. If the Game Bar doesn’t appear, head to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar. To find it, open the Xbox Game Bar overlay by pressing Windows+G.
However, you can “pin” it to your desktop and make it appear over all other windows-desktop applications and PC games alike. This floating window is normally found in the Game Bar overlay itself. Windows 10’s Game Bar is a built-in overlay with all kinds of useful tools for gamers (and non-gamers,) including a performance usage graph.
RELATED: Windows Task Manager: The Complete Guide Pin the Game Bar’s Performance Panel to Your Screen You can set up custom pages with various metrics, change the font, colors and more. (2) Bring Desktop Pins to the desktop, and choose Quit option from the Apple menu (3) Launch the Activity Monitor from Dock, Launchpad or Spotlight > type Desktop Pins in the search box > select the process pertaining to Desktop Pins > click the X button on the upper left corner > click Quite in the pop-up dialog (if that fails, choose Force Quite). It’s a good way to keep an eye on multiple resource stats at once. Desktop Info is a customizable system monitoring widget for Windows.
So, if you want to change the graph to another one-for example, to change from CPU to GPU usage statistics-double-click the graph window, select a different graph in the sidebar, and doube-click the graph again.īy the way, you can also double-click anywhere the left pane to see the left pane in a smaller floating window.