Mini Monitor Auto Start (Task Scheduler)

[Davey126]

If your up to testing I almost have Drive Speedometer done

Sure! May be some minor delays as I have family obligations this weekend. But I am anxious to check out what you have come up with. 

[Shane]

Just finished the Drive Speedometer. Getting the setup ready and then going to start testing

Down the road I will look into the changes into TS that you want

Shane

[Shane]

Give it a quick try

Not bad for a few hours of work I hope.
http://www.pcwintech.com/files/setups/drive_speedometer_v1.0.0_setup.exe

Shane

[Davey126]

Hum - quick response then off to a kid sporting event:

- frequent refreshes are a visual distraction (a graphic similar to CPU utilization on TM may be better)
- a green/yellow/red icon would be helpful to quickly identify high I/O conditions
- need to know what process is generating reads/writes to take meaningful action
- reduce vertical height (single line) so monitor can sit right above task bar with minimal icon overlap
- hovering over tray icon yields limited useful info given update frequency
- make reset icon position compatible with CM (perhaps different default location)

I know the above seems a bit critical but I don't see myself using this tool on a regular basis in its current form 

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[Shane]

Its a tool I threw together in just a few hours. Thats why I am having you try it, to help me fine tune it so I can release it Sunday.
I will get a forum thread started for it and we can start covering the bases there and fine tune it like we did cleanmem 

Shane

[Shane]

Oh and keep in mind you can mess with the colors to match so its not such a distraction as well, so its more just text

Shane

[Davey126]

Of course missing from my earlier post (do'h!) was any reference to the stability/functionality of the tool which was perfect. Something you rarely see on a first release. Kudos!

[Shane]

http://forums.pcwintech.com/index.php/topic,1909.0.html

Shane

[Shane]

When you get a chance Davey I would like to move the Drive Speedometer stuff to the right spot

- frequent refreshes are a visual distraction (a graphic similar to CPU utilization on TM may be better)

This one can be dealt with by setting the bar fill color to the same color as the background, thus a in way turning off the progress bar. Blend to desktop also works.

- a green/yellow/red icon would be helpful to quickly identify high I/O conditions

I thought about this at first but there is a problem. Unlike Cleanmem where it is monitoring on thing. This one is monitor 2. Both read and write. So not sure how I would get the tray icon to show easily both stats. I know I could split it with 2 colors, but text wont work. So for now I left it a standard icon till I find a way to deal with it.

- need to know what process is generating reads/writes to take meaningful action

The program connects to the performance monitor in windows. And that only gives me the read and write stats, not the programs doing the read and writing. Newer version of windows might, havent looked yet.

- reduce vertical height (single line) so monitor can sit right above task bar with minimal icon overlap

Again its 2 monitors, read and write, so need 2 bars. Still smaller than the default cleanmem monitor lol

- hovering over tray icon yields limited useful info given update frequency
- make reset icon position compatible with CM (perhaps different default location)

Just updated the setup.
Made a change to the text in the monitor. People are getting confused that it is showing the current read and write speed, not the actual speed of the drive. Hopefully new text will help with that.
Default location is now to the left of where cleanmem default would be.

I know the above seems a bit critical but I don't see myself using this tool on a regular basis in its current form

Lets keep this going and fine tune it till you would use it

Shane