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Windows 7: LAN activity (blinking light) ... how to?
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03 Sep 2009
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#1 | |
Windows 7 Pro (64bit). Origin: London, UK. Now: Fort Worth TX. |
LAN activity (blinking light) ... how to?
What I miss with "7" is that the network icon does not show activity, even in the unscientific way that the old XP "two screens connected by a line" thing in the system tray used to do.
There may be a way to get "7" to do that... if so, I have completely missed it! 
Not a deal breaker by any means, but there were times when something as basic and as visual as that would really help.... | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Lattitude E6500
OS Windows 7 Pro (64bit).
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.54Ghz
Motherboard Dell
Memory 8Gb
Graphics Card Intel/Dell "4 series Express Chipset"
Sound Card Intel HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Regular Laptop LCD display
Screen Resolution 1280x800
PSU Dell
Case Dell
Hard Drives Seagate ST9250410ASG 250Gb (well it IS a laptop)...
Internet Speed As much as I can get!!!!!
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06 Sep 2009
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#2 | |
Windows 7 x64 HP, Windows 7 HP, Windows 7 Ult Weatherford, Texas |
This was discussed a while ago in a different thread, and one suggestion was to use Lan Lights which was originally developed for XP. In looking at the release notes, it has recently been updated to account for Windows 7 colors and to address large memory systems.
I have it running on my Windows 7 systems (32 bit) - I missed the blinking tray icon also. 
A nice side benefit is that it shows a lot of other information as well, like totals, network activity, etc. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Gateway, Toshiba Laptop, and Home Brew
OS Windows 7 x64 HP, Windows 7 HP, Windows 7 Ult
CPU Intel I3, Cerelon, Pentium 4 @ 3Ghz
Motherboard Intel, Intel, Asus
Memory 8G, 3G, 3G
Graphics Card On-board Intel, On-board nVidia, nVIDIA card
Sound Card on-board, on-board, SoundBlaster
Monitor(s) Displays Hannspree HF237, Toshiba, SyncMaster 931B
Screen Resolution default (all)
Keyboard standard wired (all)
Mouse standard wired (all)
PSU 300w, unk, 650w
Case black, black, grey
Cooling air (all)
Hard Drives 1T internal, 320G internal, 160G internal, 1T networked
Internet Speed 6M down, 768K up
Other Info Home LAN through Linksys hub to 4 port and wireless switch/router. Networked HP 2600n. Wife's computer running Windows 7, and spare laptop running Ubuntu "Karmic Kola" (9.10).
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06 Sep 2009
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#3 | |
,Windows 7-64.7600.16385 Ultimate Thailand |
Good stuff eh
Now if we could just get the start menu back to the classic | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Gigabyte Asus
OS ,Windows 7-64.7600.16385 Ultimate
CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+, 2500
Motherboard GA-MA78G-DS3H
Memory Geil 4 Gig DDR2 800 PC2-6400 (400 MHz)
Graphics Card ATI Onboard 3200
Sound Card ATI High Definition Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays Acer 22"
Screen Resolution 1680x1050
Keyboard Wireless Microsoft
Mouse Wireless Microsoft
PSU 550 watt
Case Cooler Master
Hard Drives 1 x120 Gig
1 X 80 Gig
Internet Speed 3 Meg down .5 up
Other Info BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F8, 12/08/2009
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06 Sep 2009
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#4 | |
Windows 7 Pro (64bit). Origin: London, UK. Now: Fort Worth TX. |
Quote: Originally Posted by TheSchaft  This was discussed a while ago in a different thread, and one suggestion was to use Lan Lights Oh yes.. I remember that package from ages ago!!!
Thanks for that. I'll dig it up and see what happens. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Lattitude E6500
OS Windows 7 Pro (64bit).
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.54Ghz
Motherboard Dell
Memory 8Gb
Graphics Card Intel/Dell "4 series Express Chipset"
Sound Card Intel HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Regular Laptop LCD display
Screen Resolution 1280x800
PSU Dell
Case Dell
Hard Drives Seagate ST9250410ASG 250Gb (well it IS a laptop)...
Internet Speed As much as I can get!!!!!
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06 Sep 2009
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#5 | |
Windows 7 Pro (64bit). Origin: London, UK. Now: Fort Worth TX. |
Quote: Originally Posted by Gazzasore Good stuff eh
Now if we could just get the start menu back to the classic I used to LOVE Windows 3 style menus.... then I discovered DOS.... Well, at the time, we WERE migrating apps from CP/M 
Last edited by bjrichus; 07 Sep 2009 at 02:05 PM..
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Lattitude E6500
OS Windows 7 Pro (64bit).
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.54Ghz
Motherboard Dell
Memory 8Gb
Graphics Card Intel/Dell "4 series Express Chipset"
Sound Card Intel HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Regular Laptop LCD display
Screen Resolution 1280x800
PSU Dell
Case Dell
Hard Drives Seagate ST9250410ASG 250Gb (well it IS a laptop)...
Internet Speed As much as I can get!!!!!
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06 Sep 2009
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#6 | |
Windows 7 Pro (64bit). Origin: London, UK. Now: Fort Worth TX. |
No delete a message button (when you clicked the darn thing in error), huh?
Sorry 'bout the double posting. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Lattitude E6500
OS Windows 7 Pro (64bit).
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.54Ghz
Motherboard Dell
Memory 8Gb
Graphics Card Intel/Dell "4 series Express Chipset"
Sound Card Intel HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Regular Laptop LCD display
Screen Resolution 1280x800
PSU Dell
Case Dell
Hard Drives Seagate ST9250410ASG 250Gb (well it IS a laptop)...
Internet Speed As much as I can get!!!!!
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06 Sep 2009
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#7 | |
Windows 7 Pro (64bit). Origin: London, UK. Now: Fort Worth TX. |
Quote: Originally Posted by TheSchaft This was discussed a while ago in a different thread, and one suggestion was to use Lan Lights which was originally developed for XP. The author has some problems with it on 64bit systems.
Guess its not going to work for me then... Confirmed by the author - 32bit ONLY! 
Last edited by bjrichus; 07 Sep 2009 at 07:48 AM..
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Lattitude E6500
OS Windows 7 Pro (64bit).
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.54Ghz
Motherboard Dell
Memory 8Gb
Graphics Card Intel/Dell "4 series Express Chipset"
Sound Card Intel HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Regular Laptop LCD display
Screen Resolution 1280x800
PSU Dell
Case Dell
Hard Drives Seagate ST9250410ASG 250Gb (well it IS a laptop)...
Internet Speed As much as I can get!!!!!
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07 Sep 2009
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#8 | |
Windows 7 x64 HP, Windows 7 HP, Windows 7 Ult Weatherford, Texas |
bjrichus -
Sorry it doesn't work on 64 bit systems. Looks like the transition from 32 to 64 will be more difficult than the one from 16 to 31 was.
(BTW, you can get rid of a double post by clicking "edit" on the one you want to dump and then "delete" in the edit box. Don't fill in a reason, and then hit delete and it should automagically disappear. Worked for me.) | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Gateway, Toshiba Laptop, and Home Brew
OS Windows 7 x64 HP, Windows 7 HP, Windows 7 Ult
CPU Intel I3, Cerelon, Pentium 4 @ 3Ghz
Motherboard Intel, Intel, Asus
Memory 8G, 3G, 3G
Graphics Card On-board Intel, On-board nVidia, nVIDIA card
Sound Card on-board, on-board, SoundBlaster
Monitor(s) Displays Hannspree HF237, Toshiba, SyncMaster 931B
Screen Resolution default (all)
Keyboard standard wired (all)
Mouse standard wired (all)
PSU 300w, unk, 650w
Case black, black, grey
Cooling air (all)
Hard Drives 1T internal, 320G internal, 160G internal, 1T networked
Internet Speed 6M down, 768K up
Other Info Home LAN through Linksys hub to 4 port and wireless switch/router. Networked HP 2600n. Wife's computer running Windows 7, and spare laptop running Ubuntu "Karmic Kola" (9.10).
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07 Sep 2009
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#9 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 + x86 + Windows 8 x64 Newport, South Wales, UK |
One totally "off the wall" option - Comodo's free Firewall has an animated Tray icon that shows Upload & Download activity. Over the top for an activity indicator but if you want a good firewall and indication in x64 | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Real World Computing (Me + a little help from Acer)
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 + x86 + Windows 8 x64
CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1035T 2.6 GHz
Motherboard Aspire M3400
Memory 4Gb PC10600 DDR3 1333 MHz
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 315 512MB
Sound Card OnBoard - Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Philips 32" HDTV, (HDMI) + 26" TV (VGA)
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 @60Hz + 1360 x 768 @60Hz
Keyboard Microsoft Wireless 800 or Stock Acer, (depends where I sit)
Mouse Microsoft Wireless 800 or Stock Acer, (depends where I sit)
PSU Stock (400W)
Case Acer M3400
Cooling Stock
Hard Drives 500 GB Seagate ST3500418AS SATA II
1 TB Hitachi HDS5C1010CLA382 SATAII
1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103SI SATA II (external)
Plus various other (client ) HDDs as needed
Internet Speed Temporaray 3G Dongle
Antivirus Avast
Browser Chrome
Other Info USB Capture + Webcam(s) Bamboo Digitizer tablet
Also run Acer AspireOne 530h Netbook, Dual Core Atom + 1GB (Win7 Ult x86) Plus various test systems for new projects
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07 Sep 2009
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#10 | |
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheSchaft This was discussed a while ago in a different thread, and one suggestion was to use Lan Lights which was originally developed for XP. In looking at the release notes, it has recently been updated to account for Windows 7 colors and to address large memory systems.
I have it running on my Windows 7 systems (32 bit) - I missed the blinking tray icon also.
A nice side benefit is that it shows a lot of other information as well, like totals, network activity, etc.
Thank you for the post up, it works well with my 32 bit
Nice to have it back
Cheers | | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 7057
CPU AMD
Memory 2 Gig
Graphics Card Nvida 8600
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