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Ok, I'm using WinXP Home version. My question is this. On all previous versions of Windows, when you held your mouse cursor over your network connection icon in the system tray, it used to give much information. Who you were connected to, duration, connection speed, and lastly amount of data transmitted. Did they change that with the start of XP? Now, when I hold the mouse over it, gives me the name of the connection, speed, and status. To see data transferred numbers I gotta right click and open the connection. Like I said, not a problem, merely a question that some of you techies might have an answer for. Thanks. 
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I never thought about it. If you want your system specs to be visible on your desktop though if this really irks you you can use tools like Samurize. Just google it. There are various user-made ports and stuff addons that will give you a calendar and specs/temps and network traffic etc.
Oh, and curiosity can be a problem occasionally.
Oh, and curiosity can be a problem occasionally.
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Oh, and curiosity can be a problem occasionally.
Priceless. =)
I think that might only apply for dial up connections in XP Kastigir.
If you really want to, bring up your task manager and go to the network tab and there's a nice shiny graph of your NIC throughput!
Only if you really want to though, it's really not that interesting.
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I've always used coolmon for stuff like this.
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