Re: Disk I/O activity icon in task bar - a programming idea

In article <#FWDDrCZIHA.1212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Terry R. <F1ComNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The date and time was 1/31/2008 8:38 AM, and on a whim, Al Dykes pounded
out on the keyboard:

I'd love to see a mini-icon in the box on the lower-right of my XP
screen that blinked when the disk was busy. If there was more than
one disk, there would be an icon for each disk.

Some bells and whistles are obvious; red for write activity, green for
reads and all colors in-between when mixed. Clicking on the icon would
call up some statistics or even a history graph.

the same think for the Ethernet connection would also work,



Hi Al,

For disk monitoring, try:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Diskmon.shtml



TNX, I'll give it a try
--
Al Dykes
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- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

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