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Has anyone discovered any cool Windows 7 third-party utilities?
superboyac:
40hz <--- da man!
40hz:
One thing I do miss in Win7 are those little network taskbar icons for each network interface.
Apparently somebody else does too, because there is now a tiny (57Kb) stand-alone executable that brings most of it back. This app isn't quite the same since it only displays a single icon for all interfaces. But, unlike the original, it now indicates incoming and outgoing packet activity separately.
Software is available from the IT Samples website.
Description and download link: http://itsamples.com/network-activity-indicator.html
Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7
© 2009 Igor Tolmachev, IT Samples
Description
Network Activity Indicator displays the old 'two monitors' icon in Windows 7 that flashed blue to show network activity in the System Tray.
Unlike original Windows XP utility (that has individual indicators for each interface), this program indicates outgoing and incoming network packets on all available interfaces.
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With special thanks to Download Squad for this find. :Thmbsup:
Link to original article:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/11/24/how-to-add-network-activity-lights-to-your-system-tray-in-window/
superboyac:
Ha! That's cool! I didn't even realize that. Thanks 40hz, as usual. I love little things like that.
40hz:
Microsoft has just updated SyncToy to version 2.1 - and Windows 7 is now officially supported. (Yay!)
Very nice file/folder synchronization utility. This version is noticeably quicker and has enhanced error reporting and better fault tolerance. Also noteworthy: Microsoft has apparently fixed the data corruption issue SyncToy had with some NAS devices.
Versions available for 32 and 64-bit Windows.
Has anyone discovered any cool Windows 7 third-party utilities?
Full info and free download at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52
4wd:
Somebody came up with a 'classic' start menu for for all those people who don't like the new one. It's called CSmenu, and it can be found here: www.csmenu.com
Check out how they even managed to include some aero bling while they were at it! :Thmbsup:-40hz (November 19, 2009, 12:51 PM)
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Because it's quicker to have everything displayed at once and scan it for what you want than to have to mouse click forwards and backwards through the narrow slot that is the W7 Start Menu.
For those of you who want the Classic menu with Aero for free check out:
Classic Windows Start Menu
Has anyone discovered any cool Windows 7 third-party utilities?
Unfortunately it doesn't work if the Taskbar isn't at the bottom :(
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