You can also hit ctrl-alt-del and bring up the Windows CPU monitor, which should place a tiny icon on your taskbar next to the clock. Very handy. Always there. Gives a VU meter-like view at all times, hover the mouse over it to read the actual percentage if desired.

I've always ahd a hunch that the RealBand indicator was likely just using that Windows monitor in the background anyway, but displaying the report inside the RealBand program. My reasoning is that the two have always reported identical percentages and such here.


--Mac