M$ Please bing back animated network icons etc.

weh said:

You liked the animated paperclip? I hated it.

However, I miss the tiny double-monitor network icon from XP terribly. It was a great indicator of things going well and things gone wrong. I don't want to give over desk space to meters or gadgets -- I want as little infringing on my work area as possible. That little icon was prefect for the job at hand.

This is exactly what i am saying and yes XP was the best animation. Just like that income outgoing thing.

Barman58 said:

For anyone who actually misses clippy - Here you go,

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As for the network animation I think one reason it was removed from Windows 7 was that the Vista one caused so many support calls and forum posts due to it either not working or indicating an incorrect status.

Now that may not be a great reason for the change but I can understand the reasoning. I have lost count of the times I've been told "I've got a red X in the tray" on systems with perfectly working networks.

Windows 7 does have animation for the Wireless network icon of course where it indicates signal strength.

yes have had that a lot too, so why not just re-do the XP one that worked so well.

patrickt said:

Does anyone else see the irony in starting a thread title with "M$" and then saying, "Please".

Yeah ok point taken. lol

@ Studulike can you please use the Multi Quote instead of making multiple post.

Mr GRiM said:

@ Studulike can you please use the Multi Quote instead of making multiple post.

Oops sorry m8. Was very late. lol

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for the animated network icon in XP. it was the best.

weh said:

Check out NetWorx from Bandwidth monitor, bandwidth speed test, bandwidth and traffic monitoring tool for Windows. It's not exactly a replacement for the XP network activity icon; but it serves almost the same function and gives a lot of additional information as well. There are lots of configuration settings. Seems to work perfectly with Win 7 x64 (both 7000 and 7077). I have it monitoring all ethernet activity and set the graph to display as the system system tray icon. I also changed the colors to green for iincoming, red for outgoing and yellow for both. That way, should the icon suddenly start displaying a lot of red when I'm not sending data, I'll know something is wrong.

Will take a look thanks.

weh said:

Check out NetWorx from Bandwidth monitor, bandwidth speed test, bandwidth and traffic monitoring tool for Windows. It's not exactly a replacement for the XP network activity icon; but it serves almost the same function and gives a lot of additional information as well. There are lots of configuration settings. Seems to work perfectly with Win 7 x64 (both 7000 and 7077). I have it monitoring all ethernet activity and set the graph to display as the system system tray icon. I also changed the colors to green for iincoming, red for outgoing and yellow for both. That way, should the icon suddenly start displaying a lot of red when I'm not sending data, I'll know something is wrong.

thanks you for this very useful app. it is very customizable too. nice!