Claude Usage Widget v2.0.1 (Windows)

A bug-fix release for the taskbar strip and the usage panel.

What's fixed

• The strip matches the taskbar color. It reads the taskbar color again every 2 seconds, so it follows a new wallpaper, accent color or transparency setting. Before, it kept the color the taskbar had at sign-in, which could be the wrong color.
• The strip stays visible while the Start menu is open. The same applies to search and the notification center.
• A click on the taskbar no longer hides the strip. Before, it disappeared for up to 3 seconds and then came back.
• "This week by day" keeps its data after a restart. The history now lives in history.json next to usage_data.json, and the receiver records it too, also while the widget is closed. The history from the older place (%LOCALAPPDATA%\claude-usage-widget\) is merged in on the first start.
• The reset day no longer flips between "until Mon" and "until Tue". The panel shows the last minute of the week, for example Mon 23:59.
• The widget starts again on its own when Windows Explorer restarts.
• The strip's tooltip no longer covers the panel when you click the strip.

Install

1. Download ClaudeUsageWidget-v2.0.1-Setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows user only, with no admin prompt.
2. New install only: load the extension once. Open chrome://extensions (or edge://extensions), turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the extension folder in the install folder.
3. Start Claude Usage Widget from the Start Menu.

Upgrading from 2.0.0: run the setup. The extension did not change, so you do not need to reload it.

SHA-256 of the setup file: B9FB458C899ECB8710D916A7D6543AEEE2BBF0022D00A2A825BEA20895E9B175

Unofficial. Not affiliated with Anthropic. It reads the same internal endpoint as the claude.ai settings page, which can change without notice.