Serious Samurize : The Only Limit Is Your Imagination

What is Samurize?
Samurize is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. And best of all, Samurize is 100% free!

What about the features?
. an unrivalled set of built-in meters (Disk utilization, CPU usage, network traffic, system temperatures...)
. ultimate customizing and skinning possibilities with no programming knowledge required
. monitoring your own computer or others over a network
. tiny memory footprint and CPU usage
. the first system monitoring tool with a true WYSIWYG editor
. full extensibility via scripts and plugins with a powerful plugin SDK/API
. minimal software requirements (no .NET or Service Packs necessary)
. multimonitor support
. many usage options (desktop, taskbar and clock clients, server outputting to XML or image formats, screensaver)

Any reference websites?
. Samurize OFFICIAL Website
. Samurize on Wikipedia
. Samurize on Aqua-soft
. mysamurize.de forum (German but translate.google.com can come in handy..)
. Latest Update
. Clickable links for Windows Special Folders

Where can it be downloaded?
Download it here..

Do I have to uninstall previous version before installing the latest one?
No, you don't.

What are the hardware and software requirements for Samurize?
Samurize will run under Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003. It requires a video card that has hardware support for alpha blending in Windows (nVidia Geforce 1 or later).
Note: The taskbar client is not dependent on the type of video card because it does not blend to the desktop.

Any Noob Tutorial to start with?
Samurize 1.0.1 Visual Tutorial

Where can I download Cure2k3, the simpler version of Samurize?
It can be downloaded here

Happy Samurize-ing guys!!!

This post has been edited by fariz: Nov 9 2009, 08:53 PM

Listed here are those home-made configs by this community member.. Any question, feel free to PM the author of the config...

Entry #1

Name:Simple Samurize Config
Author: r4ydc24
Download Link: here
Remarks: only tested for Winamp

Entry #2

Name:sysStat-July
Author: r4ydc24
Download Link: here

Entry #3

Name:Info Bar
Author: fariz
Download Link: here
Remarks: for foobar2000, Winamp and WMP

Entry #4

Name:Smoked
Author: yukihatsu
Download Link: here


p/s: can anybody suggest where can i upload my configs permanently?

This post has been edited by r4ydc24: Sep 22 2007, 10:12 PM

nice.. samurize got its on thread ...

wow... good job r4ydc24!
finally a Samurize thread

any expert knows how to retrieve album cover for itunes in samurize? except let samurize download from internet .

i've just start leaning samurize. Very easy n useful tools! tumbs up

yea samurize rocks~~~!!!>.... now working, later will share as well

u myt wanna take a look at this..
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/archive/index.php?t-9840.html

itz a direct translation from a japanese website.. hope dat can be ya starting point.

Hm... My samurize config at home, if not I might wanna share with you guys.

wuaa.. thx for that link r4ydc24....
but.. that thread seems very long time ago... 2004? i'm using latest version of iTunes and Samurize... i afraid it will crash..
btw i will give it a try.. thx mate

This post has been edited by AiRBooM: May 25 2006, 02:36 PM

Will be welcoming them wif open arms guys..

Anyway, if you guys bumped into useful guides, pls do share em here... I'll update the 1st post as time goes by...

arr.. r4ydc24... just tried the software... it crashed when i open it..
and the software also seems like download the cover from internet one... i just want to search the cover in my local folder for itunes whenever i play the song.. not download from internet

I believe, all the basic functions will be working fine inter-versions. But those that we heavily customized, such as display characteristics or button functions, will make the Samurize crash.

I tried my own set of config from version 1.62 in version 1.64 last nyt, n it also crash when i click the next button for my winamp config. more customizations are in progress... wheee~

iTunes user, this step will be very troublesome... but worth doing...
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=10227

If u r still lost, juz jump to Page 5 of the thread n read Stevie BM's post.. I gez, iTunes user been struggling wif the same prob over n over again.. but since I'm not an iTunes user, hope u guys will try to make use of it...

Ar... it works for me ... but but.. it makes me vomit blood.... because it doesn't support chinese album... .... damnnn

the other way to make it recognize chinese album.. rename all your album to english words... that's very troublesome...

This post has been edited by AiRBooM: May 25 2006, 07:39 PM

^
yup... experienced that too...
btw, how to export everything with every icon or image or additional plug in??
i export mine before reformatting my com, then after i reformat, i import back the config, but some images and some plugin or folder is not included in the exported file....

@PeowYong, did u test ya *.sam file after exporting it??

just copy the whole folder to another drive and you won't miss a thing.

Yeah, I normally do wat Fariz suggested for personal backup... but use export to transfer all the configs n stuff to another machine. uhuhu

yup... i did that before too...
but after some time, the whole folder become very messy, coz i m trying a lot of other config,testing and playing around and merge into my config if i found it useful....
so if its possible to export it correctly and wont miss out anything, then the folder wont be a mess...

@r4ydc24: thats wut i forget to do.... forget to test it before formating the drive....
but if i found out that its not export completely, how do i export those file that i left out??

Still no AMPI support for foobar 0.9 right? *sheds tear*
God speed Tropics!