XhmikosR / perfmonbar

Displays performance counters on the Windows Taskbar

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Can it monitor free space of mapped drives?

AZZmatic opened this issue · comments

Modified both the counter name and display name for mapped drives and they show up as H:[N/A] GB and I:[N/A] GB. Is this a limitation of perfmon or the app?

Does Windows Performance monitor show the info right?

Good question. Performance Monitor only shows my logical drives (C,D, and E). Not sure how to have it monitor mapped drives. I think if perfmon can be set to monitor mapped drives it then the toolbar would also see it. I'm not sure how to do that. As a side note Cureinfo (yes I still run it) sees all the drives (logical and mapped) not sure how it gathers its info but it does see the mapped drives.

I don't use any mapped drivers myself so I never had this issue. But from a quick google search I see that there are issues with Performance monitor and mapped drivers.

Do you have the Cureinfo source?

I have the installer exe if that's what you mean. Not sure how to make it available. Can it be uploaded here or would a dropbox link work?

Is Cureinfo open source? Does the installer contain its source in that case?

The readme file from 2001 says the software is freeware. I know freeware is different from open source. Not sure what options we have now.

I can't find any source myself, unfortunately. :/

Feel free to play with Perfomonbar's source and let me know if you make any progress.

If I were a programmer I'm sure I would enjoy playing with source code. But I'm not. I could get you a dropbox link for the cureinfor installer if that would help.

Also the cureinfo creator Gustaf Lundh is also on GitHub.

Well, my C++ knowledge isn't so good either. But without the source it's even harder.

Its a llamasoft installer not sure how to decompile. Not my forte. I'll keep looking around and update as needed. Thanks for responding.

Try uniextract. Maybe the installer includes the source code too...

Ran it through uniextract. I gave me 5 files. 3 bin files, no extension installer and an uninstall.exe.

I have found a few sites (https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14166 and http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/222997-mapped-drives) that mention using the MappedLogicalDisk class through WMI. But I can't tell if that WMI is there by default or it need to be added somehow.

I can't find any relevant info in typeperf -qx. Feel free to experiment with this.

One more thought. This Site mentions the use of this command: gwmi win32_LogicalDisk -filter DriveType=4. DriveType=4 is a filter for network drives. I don't know if that's something that can be added to the source or not.

I ran this command in CMD wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=4 get deviceid, volumename, description
It listed my mapped drive. BTW my mapped drive is actually a folder on the c:\drive that I shared with everyone and mapped a drive to.

I'm afraid there's nothing I can do. Feel free to provide a patch.

I'm going to close the issue. If there's no Windows built-in counter that provides this, there's not a lot we can do here.