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- Price: Free to try (1-drive monitoring trial); $12.00 to buy
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- Date added: January 19, 2005
- Total Downloads: 2,765
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Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This tiny application lets you perform real-time monitoring of read and write activity on your hard disk, but its display isn't overly impressive. SoftLeds can monitor numerous hard disks installed on your computer and other computers in a LAN environment, although the demo lets you monitor one disk only. It docks itself in your system tray and displays two unintuitive flashing LED lights, one indicating read activity and the other write activity. Double-clicking the icon gives a numerical reading of the last recorded read and write performance in MBs per second. Onscreen display customizations include zoom in and zoom out, transparency, and specific colors of the LED lights. SoftLeds also automatically creates a log file of real-time read and write operations. As a nice feature, you can have your Scroll Lock key flash every time read or write activity occurs. We recommend SoftLeds to anyone seeking an easy-to-use monitoring tool.Publisher's description
From xFX JumpStart :Is your computer's case hidden away and you can't see its drive led? Is your laptop missing a drive led? Would you like to be able to monitor the disk activity on some of the computers on your network? Then SoftLeds is the exactly the tool you're looking for.
Version 1.8.0.2 Added context menu support for both the drives list and the selected drives list. This will allow you to perform the most common operations over the items displayed in these views by just right-clicking them.
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Version: SoftLeds 1.8.2
Pros: Potentially very useful - if only it worked properly
Cons: Very buggy - installer froze twice. When running in the "Desktop OSD" mode - the screen flickers like a 1930's movie ! This mode uses " xFX Click Thru Technology " - whatever that is! When in the Control Panel, enabling "OSD" mode makes it impossible to close the control panel or select any other buttons, as the screen flicker affects the mouse in some strange way. This is a major flaw as they only way out is through the Task Manager (CTRL / ALT / DEL is not an elegant or practical way to get out of a piece of software now is it??) Uninstaller froze twice. Generally - don't bother with this until it's stable. Sorry guys - must try harder. Would have happily paid for it had it actually worked.
For Ref: XP Pro SP2 / P4 3Ghz / Asus Mobo / 512Mb / NVidia GEForce 2 MX
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Version: SoftLeds 1.8.2
"Sure like the idea...I have 5 HDDs and only one case led."
Pros: First time seeing this type of program without all the complicated mess attatched to it. Nice simple setup and works as it should.
Cons: After installation, Power DVD would not function until I removed SoftLeds from my computer. Something inside really raising havock. Would love to reinstall after the bug is fixed.
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