MenuMeters for El Capitan!

What's this? It's a port to OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later of our beloved utility MenuMeters by Alex Harper, at .
As he has not yet released the port to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, I made a minimal modification to the source code he has kindly made public so that it runs fine. Confirmed to run OK on El Capitan 10.11 and Sierra 10.12. Setting up 1. Please download the preference pane from this download link zips/MenuMeters_1.9.3.zip. 2. Double click the resulting preference pane. 3. If you already have an older version of MenuMeters, the System Preference will ask you if you want to replace it. Please answer yes. 4. The System Preference might complain that it cannot be loaded. In that case please quit the System Preference once, and relaunch it. It should

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