Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Why there’s no Network Activity Indicator in Windows 7 ?

If you have moved from Windows XP to Windows 7 , you might be wondering why there’s no Network Activity Indicator in Windows 7. Here’s the answer – check this small ‘But Why’ video explaining the same.

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No Network Activity Indicator in Windows 7: But Why?

 

If you are missing this feature in Windows 7 and want it to see in Windows 7, there’s a utility for it, created by Igor Tolmachev.

networkactind

Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7 - displays the old 'two monitors' icon in Windows 7 that flashed blue to show network activity on the System Tray.

Earlier when it was released as XP Style indicator, I had also blogged about it. XP style Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7

Unlike the original Windows XP utility (that has individual indicators for each interface), this program indicates outgoing and incoming network packets on all available interfaces.

network-activity-indicator

You can get it from http://www.itsamples.com/network-activity-indicator.html   This utility is released as freeware.

2 comments:

AnandK said...

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