Do you want to know all the information about your computer without installing a program that is too heavy or consumes many system resources? Undoubtedly, Desktop Info is one of the best alternatives, considering that it will show you all the relevant data from a small box on the upper right corner of your PC.

At least, that is the initial configuration of this application. However, you can customize it as much as you consider necessary to better adjust it to the use you want to give it, for example, by moving it from one side of the screen to the other. You also can increase or decrease the size of the information area on the screen to see it more clearly or to make it less annoying on the monitor.

At the same time, you will see that it is possible to make changes to the colors with which you can see the system information or add or remove specific parameters within all those available for this application. That is to say, if any of the information it offers does not seem important to you, or if, on the contrary, you think it is missing, go to its Settings and customize the system as you prefer. However, later you will see that it is not easy to do so.

A not minor detail of Desktop Info has to do with the fact that it is an application that runs, so as it does not need any installation, we can say that we are in the presence of a portable program. In fact, as a consequence, it is also a system that hardly consumes any of our computer's resources, even when we have it running permanently.

Unlike other similar applications, the attraction of Desktop Info is that it appears as part of our wallpaper, updating itself in real-time with all the modified data while we use our PC. In this way, you can completely disengage from its operation and recheck it after a while, and even in this way, you will see that the data it offers is always produced live.

Undoubtedly, this is an essential tool for those users who want to identify in just a second the information related to a specific part of their computer without having to leave the programs open at that moment.

What kind of information does Desktop Info provide? A lot of the preliminary reports, such as the lifetime, as well as the name of the user of that session, data about the CPU usage, the operating system, the disk usage, the terminal services, the computer's memory usage and consumption, and many others that, as we said before, you can add or remove as many times as you consider necessary.

As for the Desktop Info interface, if we had to define it in one word, we would have to say that it stands out especially for its simplicity, taking into account that it is an informative table that does not even occupy space above where it appears due to its transparent background. And although we can customize it to the maximum, even giving more substance to its visual aspect, it ends up being neither annoying nor invasive, so it passes with flying colors.

Precisely, since we refer to the possibility of modifying some of the visual aspects of this application, you have to know that it is not a particularly simple system that its developers put at our disposal. For any aesthetic change you want to carry forward in Desktop Info, you must produce it in aNotepad. Although it is not impossible to apply them, the ideal would be to be able to do it from a traditional menu.

One last issue we didn't like too much about this application is that when we open other programs and leave the Desktop, it is automatically hidden behind the new windows we are working on. In this way, to view its contents, it is necessary to return to the Desktop. It is not a severe problem, but you must consider it to know how to use it.

At the moment of summarizing the best and the worst of Desktop Info, we have to mention as high points, the fact that it is one of the programs that consume fewer resources when we want to obtain information about our computer, and the fact that we can move it around the Desktop makes it easier to visualize it. However, it is covered whenever we open a program, and its configuration system is not intuitive.

In summary, we can recommend the installation of Desktop Info, especially to those computer users who are a little short of power and want to know the essential information about the operation of their PC without spending too many resources on it. If this is your case, you can be sure that this is one of the best free alternatives.

And a small final tip, especially for those users with vision difficulties, is always to try to have a transparent background on the Desktop; otherwise, the Desktop Info data visualization in its original version will not be easy.