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HDLc

Michael Leocádio @ 2015

C++

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Status - Archived

  • Description
    Very simple tray indicator for hard drive read/write activity (for computers lacking the chassis LED)

  • Reasoning
    Since my desktop days (2000-2014) I used to rely on the HD LED 🚨 on the hardware chassis to know if the system was hung or just heavily working on something. However, back in 2015, I was using a very weak laptop (with a dinosaur HDD 🦕) that lacked that external indicator, so it annoyed me a lot not to know if the PC was frozen or if I should just wait; when the light is constantly on or blinking a lot it means heavy disk operation is being done, otherwise an unresponsive system and a turned off LED means the system certainly crashed, so I developed this very simple (not even an exit button 😅) utility to simulate the HD LED as a tray icon indicator.

  • Usage / Features
    Run the Install.cmd (as Admin) and it will automatically add the executable to %windir% and PC initialization, or just run HDLc.exe to test drive it.
    It does not have an exit button (as for the nature of the application, should it?). I made the tray icon light/dark theme agnostic.