How to add a network activity monitor to Windows 7

I like Win­dows 7. But there’s one thing that I noticed miss­ing right off the top, a net­work activ­ity mon­itor in the Taskbar.

Sure, you could ad a gadget/widget thingie to the desktop, but when you’re work­ing on some­thing, odds are you’re at full-screen resoulu­tion and the mon­itor is behind whatever y ou’re work­ing on.

Well, thanks to this cool little site (and the pointer from Down­load Squad) Win­dows 7 now has a work­ing taskbar-mounted net­work activ­ity mon­itor, com­plete with anim­ated blink­ing screen. To quote the developer:

Pretty straight­for­ward, and func­tional. And light weight! The Net­work Activ­ity Indic­ator for Win­dows 7 weighs in at a tiny 57kb download.

You can down­load it here

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Tagged as: animation, blinking, Microsoft, monitor, network, network monitor, taskbar, Upgrade, utility, Windows, Windows 7