triger49 Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 It seems like a similar thingy for the Win9x/Me family is VERY diffcult to find. I was able to find a few, but all for the NT/2K/XP family.BUT B) :............................................A more recent version is here :http://hdled.home.comcast.net/~hdled/reported as working for both 98 and Me, but the e-mail at attbi.com should mean that the thingy is "on it's own". jaclazBingo....last one in the list worked....($20 shareware) One other thing, found a foot note in with info I saved about joining ZD_Net years ago....sure enough, in a list of downloads I wanted from them was HD Light utilty....at least I know where I found it....times like this I think it would be nice to Google my Apt.... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Maybe you were thinking about this one:http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=744749Homepage is here:http://www.dkpcode.com/html/downloads.html#DKHardDrive-LightThough ZDnet says:System Req: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Microsoft .Net FrameworkDeveloper says:Product: DKHardDrive-Light - Desktop (on screen) hard drive light.Version: 1.2.2 Platform: Windows 2000/XP/Vistajaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multibooter Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) http://hdled.home.comcast.net/~hdled/...Bingo....last one in the list worked....($20 shareware)My initial impression is that Hard Disk LED v1.1 of Feb.1997 seems to work fine under Win98SE on my old 750MHz Inspiron 7500 laptop (120GB internal PATA HDD) connected to a 1.5TB SATA HDD in an external Thermaltake USB enclosure. The read and write lights flash in the system tray when there is HDD read/write activity, regardless whether from accessing the USB HDD or the internal HDD. It works fine with ScanDisk and NDD, the activity lights are flashing while ScanDisk/NDD is accessing the internal or external HDD.On my desktop (2.2GHz dual core, GeForce 7800GS and a 750GB internal HDD) this utility had initially a display problem under Win98: The activity lights rarely flashed during disk activity. After setting the Priority on its system tray icon to "Lowest", the activity lights flashed much better, but still not as well as the actual LED on the computer case.One big gripe: the 2 activity lights in the system tray are miniscule, a magnifying glass could be handy.My initial impression is that Hard Disk LED v1.1 seems to work fine under Win98 with old hardware (e.g. my 10-year-old laptop), but has some issues with modern hardware (e.g. my desktop with a 2.2GHz dual core). Maybe somebody else could join me in testing this 12-year-old software on modern hardware, to make sure that there are no hidden issues. Edited March 17, 2009 by Multibooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) Hmmm, Resource Hacker?I take that back... no no no! pay for it and/or ask for it to be enlarged...(giganticus brain-farticus) Edited March 16, 2009 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multibooter Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 (edited) Maybe somebody else could join me in testing this 12-year-old software on modern hardware, to make sure that there are no hidden issues.I have experienced twice on my desktop some corruption of Windows Explorer after having installed Hard Disk LED, I never had this before: when I double-clicked on the StartUp folder, it didn't open, but another software loaded, the same happened when I clicked on some, but not all, desktop icons. After rebooting, this happened again after some time, but I haven't been able to repeat this corruption so far.When I play a movie from an external 1.5TB USB HDD on the fast desktop or on the slower old laptop (which has a modern 120GB HDD), the system tray icon of Hard Disk LED does not show any perceptible disk activity; the physical access lights of the Thermaltake USB enclosure do flicker slightly however. Maybe current disk access times are too fast for Hard Disk LED . Edited March 17, 2009 by Multibooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 What about SoftLeds? It's shareware too, but costs less, its latest version is from 2004 and it's from xFX JumpStart, the inventors of the great freeware Pop Up Killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multibooter Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 (edited) What about SoftLeds? It's shareware too, but costs less, its latest version is from 2004 and it's from xFX JumpStartHi dencorso,I tried their latest version v1.09.0006 of 23-May-2008, its installer states that it's only for WinXP/2003 and Vista. It installs under Win98, but does not run. Any idea where there are older versions which run under Win98? v1.6.002 seems to have run under Win98 http://www.sharewareriver.com/product.php?id=8494 but its not there anymore. Edited March 17, 2009 by Multibooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Any idea where there are older versions which run under Win98?Sorry, Multibooter, my bad! I thought the links in the News section of SoftLeds at the xFX site pointed to the older versions. Now I've checked it, and found out they all point to the latest version only. I've looked around the net and it seems the're nowhere to be found. Sorry for the misleading suggestion. I was misled myself. PS: Consider, however, that perhaps sending an e-mail to xFX might work: they may yet mantain a back version archive and be willing to send you the version you need. It has worked for me a couple of times in the past, in similar situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 The 1.6 is XP/2003 as well:http://web.archive.org/web/20030801141307/...ds/download.htmhttp://web.archive.org/web/20040607134323/...ds/download.htmjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multibooter Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Unfortunately Shareware, will disactivate after 30 minutes....A more recent version is here :http://hdled.home.comcast.net/~hdled/reported as working for both 98 and Me, but the e-mail at attbi.com should mean that the thingy is "on it's own". The mule may surely help, even with ancient Hard Disk LED 1.1, which may be the only utility of its kind for Win98. Any other experiences or issues detected after testing for more than 30 minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triger49 Posted April 30, 2009 Author Share Posted April 30, 2009 Had to think twice before I posted this....but the crazy thing works, ......Rubber Ducky....shows activity even on drives on my pci-ide card....hardly what I had in mind tho..... Get it here....it is freewareJake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multibooter Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Thanks Jake,rubberducky didn't convince me, on my old laptop I hardly can see the 2 plants (=disk activity indicators) move and the whole thing is not really intuitive. But maybe we will still find something. A disk activity indicator is quite useful, to see whether a program is still doing something or whether it's frozen, or whether an installation is is doing something or hung, etc.5 months ago I have built myself a little external USB solid-state HDD, consisting of a USB hub with a built-in SDHC card reader plus 2 more SDHC card reader sticks attached to it, altogether 3x16=48GB storage. I have been using it nearly uninterruptedly for 5 months as an eMule download station, without any problems. Every SDHC card reader has a little physical disk activity light built in, this makes for very easy checking of the upload and download activity of the mule, or whether the mule hangs, even when the laptop screen has shut itself off.I have CPUIdle as the CPU activity indicator, it works also with a dual-core CPU under Win98, maybe we eventually can find a good disk activity indicator for Win98. Edited April 30, 2009 by Multibooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Rubber Ducky???!!! Sorry, Jake, no offense meant... but it *is* the funniest ideia materialized in a program that I've seen in a long time! Edited April 30, 2009 by dencorso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Well, I won't use "rubberducky", but I find it an IDEA! jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) If you like that kind of stuff, here is Tray Animations http://download.computerbild.de/downloads/...44/trayanim.exeEdit: Get this one instead that I have just uploaded, there is a bundled library of nearly 500 animations plus an animation editor :http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?aunmenandadVery rare freeware stuff you can't elsewhere online I think. Edited April 30, 2009 by eidenk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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