M$ Please bing back animated network icons etc.

[icoola77]

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.

+1

Yep, I absolutely agree, I miss it too, it was perfect in XP, and then in Vista they changed it just for the sake change, not better functionality, and in 7 it is even worse

So MS you better bring it back....pretty please

 

[Studulike]

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.

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.

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

Yeah ok point taken. lol

 

[Mark]

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

 

[Studulike]

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

Oops sorry m8. Was very late. lol

 

[weh]

A substitute: NetWorx from SoftPerfect . . .

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.

 

[xan K]

1+
for the animated network icon in XP. it was the best.

 

[Studulike]

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.

 

[icoola77]

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.

Thank you mate, this is a very useful little app, i downloaded it (both the install version and the portable version) and i like it very much. And it is free too, i love it.



Though i would still like for MS to give us our beloved little animated network/internet tray icons back.

 

[taskman]

1+

one more for the animated network icon in XP (it was really eXPerience)

 

[xan K]

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!

 

[clspro]

Animated XP Icon Network for Win7

Here is the solution: Lan Lights

 

[mxosder16]

pretty cool...

 

[RadioJoe]

Restore Network Activity Indicator

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but Ed Bott just wrote about this.
Restore the network activity indicator to Windows 7

Here is the program he mentions in the article.
Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7 - IT Samples

 

[Dwarf]

Excellent. Trying it out now. For an OS that is touted as Microsoft's most secure to date, the omission of an animated network icon is, in my opinion, a design flaw. It is useful to see if there is any unwarranted network activity as it could be the first indication of untoward system activity.

 

[Extensa]

Here is another one:

http://www.sevenforums.com/projects/43248-network-activity-indicator.html

 

[Dwarf]

It's actually the same one.

 

[logicearth]

I really don't see the appeal of having a tiny animated icon. Your network not working? Would be obvious if you are not getting a connection or nothing is loading...right? Maybe it just me where I don't care to know ever little ounce of information about what my computer may or may not be doing and actually do some work instead of watching an animated icon....just saying...

 

[RadioJoe]

I really don't see the appeal of having a tiny animated icon. Your network not working? Would be obvious if you are not getting a connection or nothing is loading...right? Maybe it just me where I don't care to know ever little ounce of information about what my computer may or may not be doing and actually do some work instead of watching an animated icon....just saying...

as stated above... It is useful to see if there is any unwarranted network activity

 

[logicearth]

as stated above... It is useful to see if there is any unwarranted network activity

There is always network traffic. Just idling watching a packet scanner there is a dozen different kinds of legitimate traffic going on, to and from your computer. A little flashing icon tells you nothing you don't already know.

 

[anspg49a]

I agree

I agree bring back the network flash as in XP why waste space, memory etc with a gadget

Cmon Bill fix this