Monitor hard drive disk activity from windows system tray

Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Add a hard-drive activity indicator to the Windows system tray Great for PCs that lack a hard-drive LED, free utility TrayStatus can also display the status of various keyboard keys.

Rick Broida. BinaryFortress Once upon a time, all desktops and laptops had LEDs that would blink whenever there was hard drive activity. For our purposes, however, let's focus on the hard-drive indicator: Step 1: Download, install and run TrayStatus. Enlarge Image. Discuss: Add a hard-drive activity indicator to the Windows system tray. As you can see, Process Explorer is a much more powerfull tool than Windows Task Manager and can make better use of your Windows System tray.

Filed under Windows Tips by Mike Boyds. Thanks for this. I've got something hammering my HD when my computer first loads up for a couple of minutes then dies off, been annoying me, so now i can find out what it is, cheers. Click here to cancel reply. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Subscribe without commenting E-Mail:. Want to have your AD seen here? Events can be either timed for their duration in microseconds , or stamped with the absolute time that they were initiated.

The History Depth dialog can be used to specify the maximum number of records that will be kept in the GUI 0 signifies no limit. DiskMon uses kernel event tracing. Download Diskmon KB. Run now from Sysinternals Live. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.