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I'm looking for a network activity notification indicator for Windows-7 (Windows XP had, remember?).

I saw this SU question and, although it provides a 3rd party solution, it does not provide a solution for the notifications, but through hardware LEDs.

This question is VERY similar without the requirement of the solution to be a notification solution. In the answer there is a broken link and the above mentioned Network Lights.

Anyway to achieve something like this?

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You can turn on the activity animation, or use another product by the same creators of Network Lights, Network Activity Indicator. It will indicate incoming as well as outgoing traffic, and you can even change the blink duration:

Network Activity Indicator displays the old 'two monitors' icon in Windows 7 that flashed blue to show network activity on the System Tray.

Unlike the original Windows XP utility (that has individual indicators for each interface), this program indicates outgoing and incoming network packets on all available interfaces.

Network Activity Indicator is freeware.

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Here's a slick one I just found. Installed it and it works like a charm in Windows 7.

http://www.paulmather.net/lanlight.asp

Not only lights in the task bar, but also a popup with traffic graphs, etc.

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I think I may be missing something here. Do you just mean the system tray network activity?

Edit: ah, Vista screenshot. Why was this removed in Windows 7...

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