Extera Monitor v0.2.1 — Windows tray integration

Extera Monitor v0.2.1

This update adds complete Windows shell and system tray integration.

New in this release

• Extera Monitor is added to the Windows Start menu under its own application folder.
• The installer creates a desktop shortcut by default; it can still be disabled on the installer tasks page.
• Closing the main window keeps monitoring active in the Windows notification area.
• Left-clicking the tray icon restores and activates the dashboard.
• The tray menu can open the dashboard, pause or resume telemetry sampling, and exit the application completely.
• Windows shutdown and explicit application exit bypass close-to-tray behavior correctly.
• The uninstaller removes both Start menu and desktop shortcuts.

Downloads

• ExteraMonitor-Setup-v0.2.1-win-x64.exe — self-contained Windows installer.
• ExteraMonitor-v0.2.1-win-x64-portable.zip — compact self-contained portable build.
• SHA256SUMS.txt — SHA-256 checksums for both packages.

No separate .NET installation is required. Administrator access is requested for the hardware telemetry driver.

Current system support

• Windows 11 x64.
• Windows 10 x64 configurations supported by .NET 10, currently LTSC/Enterprise.
• Full kernel CPU telemetry on AMD Family 19h processors (Zen 3 / Zen 4).
• Extended SMU telemetry on AMD Raphael, Family 19h Model 61h.
• NVIDIA and AMD GPU telemetry through LibreHardwareMonitor, with an NVIDIA nvidia-smi fallback.

Verified on Windows 11 x64 with an AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070.

This is an unsigned development release, so Windows can display an unknown-publisher prompt.

Extera Monitor v0.2.0 — Windows installer + portable

Extera Monitor v0.2.0

The first packaged release of the driver-aware Windows telemetry dashboard.

Downloads

• ExteraMonitor-Setup-v0.2.0-win-x64.exe — self-contained Windows installer with Start menu and optional desktop shortcuts.
• ExteraMonitor-v0.2.0-win-x64-portable.zip — compact self-contained portable build. Extract the complete folder and run ExteraMonitor.exe.
• SHA256SUMS.txt — SHA-256 checksums for both packages.

No separate .NET installation is required. Both packages contain the .NET 10 runtime and the complete telemetry runtime. Extera Monitor requests administrator access when it starts because it loads its hardware telemetry driver.

Current system support

Area	Supported in v0.2.0
OS	Windows 11 x64; Windows 10 x64 configurations supported by .NET 10, currently LTSC/Enterprise
CPU architecture	x64
Full kernel CPU telemetry	AMD Family 19h processors (Zen 3 / Zen 4)
Extended SMU telemetry	AMD Raphael, Family 19h Model 61h
GPU	NVIDIA and AMD devices exposed through LibreHardwareMonitor; NVIDIA also uses an nvidia-smi fallback

Verified on Windows 11 x64 with an AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070.

Windows 7/8.1, ARM64, x86, Intel CPU kernel telemetry, and AMD Family 1Ah/Zen 5 kernel telemetry are not supported by this release. Standard Windows counters may be available on more hardware, but v0.2.0 waits for its driver and required CPU/GPU sensor channels during startup.

Included

• optimized direction-aware navigation and active-page-only rendering;
• live CPU, GPU, memory, disk, network, process, and sensor telemetry;
• optimized AMD kernel IOCTL path with cached PCI/SMU discovery;
• dark and light themes, modular CPU workspace, desktop overlay, and local SQLite settings;
• English and Ukrainian installer languages.

This is an unsigned development release, so Windows can display an unknown-publisher prompt.

Latest master build v0.2.7 (8a1a7a2)

Automatically refreshed from the master branch.

Version: 0.2.7
Commit: 8a1a7a2

The compact installer shows download progress for Microsoft's .NET 10 runtime when missing. The portable ZIP remains self-contained.
Both packages include the required Driver runtime files.