Network Monitor 2.0

Over a year ago I created a small and simple Network Monitoring tool to compensate for the missing network activity icon in modern versions of Windows. Maybe it’s just me but I LIKE to know when there’s some network activity going on, without having to open the Task Manager.

Network Monitor

Network Monitor’s Activity Icon

I have updated it several times and post it the update as a new downloadable version in the original post. I believe the first version was 0.7 (or something like that) and the one available right now is 1.0.

Network Monitor Leds Mode

So today… I was kind of bored and decided to make some changes that I really wanted to implement for some time:

  • Fix a frigging start-up crash that would happen if the predefined network adapter no longer existed
  • Add more visual modes (for purely cosmetic reasons):
    • Line Graph
      Network Monitor Line Graph Mode
    • Solid Graph
      Network Monitor Filled Graph Mode
  • And, above everything else, fix the damn auto-scale functionality.

So, well, here it is. Version 2.0.

Here you can download the binary version (which requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile):
Network Monitor for Windows (2863 downloads )

And here you can download its source code as a Visual Studio 2012 project:
Network Monitor Source Code for Windows (2926 downloads )

What other features would like to see implemented?