#246050 - 09/01/2005 20:44
meter in upper-right corner?
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Registered: 13/12/2003
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sorry if this seems dumb, i searched around and couldn't find anything...
i recently opened my riocar for the first time to add a second hard drive. everything went perfectly. while i was at it, i moved from 2.00 final consumer to 2.00 final dev, and put the latest hijack kernel on there (i don't know what version i was using previously). since then, there's this strange "meter" in the upper right corner of the display, on top of my visualization. it looks like a small round pill. it is not always there, and seems to appear and disappear at random. i call it a meter because it can be totally filled-in, totally hollow, or anywhere in between. for the life of me, i can't figure out what this is supposed to represent, why it's there, or how to get rid of it. can anyone enlighten me? here's my best ASCII representation of the meter: (||||| )
thanks. -spatula
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#246051 - 09/01/2005 20:47
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: spatula]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
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The 'meter' represents disk activity. I don't remember details right now, but it can be turned off. Serch the board for 'disk activity' or similar.
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#246052 - 09/01/2005 20:50
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: spatula]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/09/1999
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Loc: Croatia
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#246053 - 09/01/2005 21:00
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: bonzi]
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new poster
Registered: 13/12/2003
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aaah, now it all makes sense. not sure how it got enabled, but now i can finally go disable it. thanks a lot!
-spatula
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#246054 - 09/01/2005 21:43
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: spatula]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
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You are welcome. I personally like to leave it on, BTW. I don't know exactly why; probably the same reason I have all kinds of activity and performance monitors running on my workstation - gives an illusion of control, I guess.... 
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#246055 - 11/01/2005 00:13
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: bonzi]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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Since this is resolved, can I swing off topic and ask:
Do you have any little performance monitors for Windows 2k/XP? Forever, I've been running on my Windows 95 machine, trusty System Monitor in a tiny window on the bottom of my screen. It shows me bytes read, bytes written, free memory, and (tries to show CPU activity).
But when I move to XP, I probably won't have that. It's such a helpful little thing to see. Like the heartbeat of my computer, i can tell when it's strained, working too hard for no reason, etc etc.
Any trusty, native, preferably bundled-with-Windows solutions for old System Monitor in the 21st century?
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#246056 - 11/01/2005 00:26
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
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task manager will sit in your system tray and show everything you want and more. ctrl-alt-del will bring up a window that you can click 'task manager' on, or you can right click on your taskbar and select it.
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#246057 - 11/01/2005 04:32
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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member
Registered: 24/02/2003
Posts: 111
Loc: Elk Grove, CA
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Or Ctrl+Shift+Esc 
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#246058 - 11/01/2005 05:47
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
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Quote:
But when I move to XP, I probably won't have that. It's such a helpful little thing to see. Like the heartbeat of my computer, i can tell when it's strained, working too hard for no reason, etc
Actually, I have nothing better than task manager in the tray (not very helpful when minimised there: it only shows CPU which is always 100% since I run SETI@Home, but easy to pop open), and performance monitor, which is quite customizable, but various items around the main chart area cannot be pruned sufficiently to leave only a little window in the corner...
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#246059 - 11/01/2005 07:12
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 2009
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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Process Explorer from Sysinternals is a better windows task manager and freeware to boot.
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#246060 - 11/01/2005 08:03
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: bonzi]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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and performance monitor, which is quite customizable, but various items around the main chart area cannot be pruned sufficiently to leave only a little window in the corner...
You used to be able to double-click on the chart to have it lose all of the decoration, but MS seem to have broken it in newer versions of Windows.
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#246061 - 11/01/2005 08:24
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
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You used to be able to double-click on the chart to have it lose all of the decoration, but MS seem to have broken it in newer versions of Windows.
Still works for me on an XP SP 2 box here. Could be due to my themes service being disabled though.
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#246062 - 11/01/2005 10:14
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: drakino]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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Still works for me on an XP SP 2 box here.
Yeah, you can still do this in Task Manager. We were talking about Performance Monitor (perfmon), where you used to be able to do this, but Microsoft broke it when, in their infinite wisdom, they turned it into a Management Console snap-in.
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#246063 - 11/01/2005 10:22
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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Registered: 29/06/2002
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Loc: Triangle, VA
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I personally like to use samurize and display all the system stuff on my desktop.
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#246064 - 12/01/2005 02:01
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
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Loc: East Coast, USA
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Process Explorer from Sysinternals is a better windows task manager and freeware to boot.
Ah, I should have known that, since I raided Sysinternals to help me clean a nasty spyware right before Christmas.
And I'll try the other one that was mentioned too. Becuase I just couldn't "trim enough fat" off the trusty Ctrl-Shift-Esc Task Manager. Thanks.
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#246065 - 13/01/2005 20:05
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: FireFox31]
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member
Registered: 03/02/2002
Posts: 101
Loc: Sweden
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Ok, so this is troll... But on my linux I now use this as cpu-meter... :-)
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#246066 - 13/01/2005 20:09
Re: meter in upper-right corner?
[Re: Memil]
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Registered: 29/08/2000
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