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It turned out that I hadn’t set one of the parameters correctly so it DID blink, once, but afterwards it didn’t because the data was already in the system didn’t need to keep re-reading it. I remember trying to emulate some disk activity but it just wouldn’t WORK. Included were “terminals” connected to the “Main Frame” (See? It was just that long ago - the late 70’s) to printers or to tape drives, and of course, disks.

#DISK LED WINDOWS 10 DRIVER#

There I discovered the driver that, essentially did everything for every device.

#DISK LED WINDOWS 10 CODE#

And actually, “back then,” I taught myself to write CODE (In a proprietary language called “SPL”) because I was in a class and they had actual print-outs of the entire OS. If things were running quite slow, again you could see if that LED was blinking like mad or showed you a disk was getting a beating because it was on, solid. If a disk SHOULD be “doing something” you could glance at the disk to see if so. So “back in the day” NO ONE would think that little blinking ID (LED) on EACH disk wasn’t needed. Now, I “Grew up” in the era when a disk drive was THE thing to worry about when you pay $60,000 or more to hold 320MB in a box almost as big as the home dryer, you kinda hope your disks are behaving. The source code is available here.I have to agree with Daevid Vincent (Above.)

DiskLED should run on any Windows client or server operating system beginning with Windows XP.ĭiskLED is freeware.

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If you do not see any icon (nothing happens) after starting DiskLED: if you are running Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 make sure that you have configured Explorer to show all icons in the system tray, or configure Explorer to show DiskLED’s icon.

So, if you get the following error message when starting DiskLED “InitPDH: PdhAddCounter failed with: 0xc0000bb8” and the tool only displays a red exclamation mark in the system tray: double-click that exclamation mark and select a performance counter in your system’s language. Those settings are localized (they depend on the OS language). If it cannot find the INI file there, it uses built-in default settings.

DiskLED looks for its configuration (INI) file in the folder where you put the executable.

DiskLED is much more accurate than typical hardware LEDs.

DiskLED runs from whatever location you put it in.

It might be a good idea to have DiskLED start up automatically when logging on to Windows.

Once you are satisfied with the configuration, check “Update the INI file” and then click on apply or OK.

The new settings take effect immediately. If you just want to play around with performance counters, do not check “Update the INI file” but click on apply instead.In case of “Current Disk Queue Length” that would be 2 (on systems with one hard disk, no RAID etc.). You tell it by entering the appropriate maximum value corresponding to 100% utilization. DiskLED has no way of knowing which queue length value is low, and which value is high. That counter returns the number of requests for disk activity currently on hold because the disk is busy. Let us say you chose the counter “Current Disk Queue Length”.

#DISK LED WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#

It might also be a good idea to tell DiskLED how to interpret the values from the selected performance counter.Configure other settings, such as the icon to display.This validates the selection and writes the resulting performance counter path into the dialog box below.

The default is _Total (sum of all disks).

Select an instance (if the object is a disk, the instance specifies which disk to monitor).

This is what DiskLED’s configuration dialog looks like: Read on below for how to configure DiskLED. If you do not see an additional icon, configure Explorer to show DiskLED’s icon.

Double-click the icon in the system tray (next to the time).

Ignore that for now (just click on OK as you always do -) If you are on a non-English system, it will show an error message. Use any folder, but preferably use one where you have write access with your regular user account, or DiskLED will be unable to save its configuration file (yep, it stores it in the location of the EXE file). It comes with a graphical configuration dialog that lets you choose from all performance counters available on the local system – you can monitor network throughput just as easily as hard disk activity or memory usage. DiskLED is a small tool that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon.