> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sugrue > Sent: Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:38 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Hard Drive Access > > > Does anyone know if there is a way - Windows Message or otherwise to tell when the hard drive is being accessed? > > I want to make a wee tray icon app that flashes when the HDD is being used. Silly really, but cant see the HDD light because keyboard obscures it.
One of the SysInternals tools does this - I think its : http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/diskmon.shtml (Which also says that it's based on an app in the m$ SDK). Actually, its quite clever : "DiskMon locates a disk device's driver object and replaces the driver's dispatch entry points with its own. The DiskMon filter functions pass Irps it sees onto the hooked driver" Also, if you have XP / 2k, Performance Monitor will graph disk accesses - don't think in the taskbar though. Or you could just get physio and a budget keyboard ;) Cheers, Kurt. _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
