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- The Windows Magazine disk space meter provides a way for you to monitor the
- available disk space on any drive connected to your computer on a minute-by
- minute basis, indicating the space available on an animated pie-chart
- display - which even works when iconized!
-
- To install Disk Space Meter, copy the .EXE file, METER.EXE, to a
- convenient directory (We reccomend you create a C:\METER directory). Also
- copy the dynamic link library MSDOS.DLL to your main \WINDOWS directory; the
- meter will not run properly without it. Finally, if you don't own Visual
- Basic, and don't already have the Visual Basic runtime DLL (VBRUN100.DLL) on
- your hard disk, copy that file to your Windows directory as well. You can
- then use the "New..." option on the Program Manager's "File" menu to add
- METER.EXE to the program group of your choice.
-
- Double-clicking on the icon will run METER, with the default disk drive
- (the one it's installed on) selected. You can change the drive with the
- disk selector, or you can pass a drive identifier on the Windows command
- line (beware - if you pass a bad drive identifier, meter will crash). Once
- meter is launched, you can iconize it, and it will still indicate moment-by-
- moment disk free space by animating a small pie chart on the icon.
-
- For all the VB programmers out there (YOU know who you are!), full source
- code is included, so feel free to modify it as you wish (we do ask that you
- leave our name credited in the code, though) -- and if you're doing
- something especially neat with it, let us know!
-
- Feel free to pass meter around to your friends -- it's free!
-
- The Editors of Windows Magazine
-