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Get Vista Style Drive Icons in Windows XP

One of the nice little features in Windows Vista that you don't think about is the graph of drive space for your drive icons, so you can visually see at a glance how much space is used. There's no reason to upgrade for this feature, especially since some programmers created a small utility for XP that gives you the same functionality.

You'll notice the new icon looks very similar to the ones in Vista, but the more interesting addition is the new bar under the icon that gives you a tiny graph of the current drive space.

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The graph will show up on most of the icon sizes other than the details view.

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When your drive is running low on space the graph will turn red to indicate that you should probably stop downloading so much.

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You can see in task manager that it really doesn't use all that much memory.

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Download Drvicon from Sourceforge.net

The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 11/12/07 and tagged with: Windows

Comments (4)

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  2. Jaime Jusino

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  3. Andy

    I have just downloaded and installed this drvicon. I now have a new icon on my storage drive D, but my local disc C has no icon at all !!!!!!!!!!!

    Does anyone know how to fix this??

    Many thanks in advance for any help

  4. bob

    erm wer can i download dis ?? :S


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