I know it says MinWidth, but it actually sets the max width. To get even more information into your taskbar, you can increase the max tab width with this registry hack: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 You should check out powerline for a more powerful statusline printer. That runs top, gets rid of the first two lines, and prints the other lines to the title! From here, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Output = check_output('top -b -n1 -1'.split()).decode() (procps-ng is needed for top.) Then open a Cygwin terminal and run this python script in it: #!/usr/bin/env python3

Install Cygwin with the python3 and procps-ng packages. Because we need those labels that's where the status information is going to go.

This will only work if you do not have Settings > Taskbar > 'Combine taskbar buttons' set to 'Always, hide labels'. From there, you can put whatever information you want into the taskbar. Here's a wild hack for you: you start the Cygwin terminal and run a script in it that will set the correct terminal title.

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