Hard Disk Monitoring

Good day.

While I'm here for something else, I would like to ask about an issue with the Tray Icon.

I set HDS to show only 1 tray icon, showing only the one disk with the highest temperature.

This works well, but Windows treats every disk as a separate icon. What I mean is that if I tell Windows not to hide the icon and always show it in the tray, and then another disk becomes the one with the highest temperature, then the icon disappears and I have to tell Windows again to show the HDS icon - In the "customize" which icons are hidden, every disk is listed as a separate icon.

Can something be done about that?

Thank you.
Best Regards,

Yes, generally what you wrote is normal: the icon has always different "name" (title, description) depending on WHICH drive is the highest.
The icon designed to reflect the disk itself of the highest temperature when the "Display only highest temperature on tray" option is enabled on Configuration -> Hard Disk Drives.

You did not mention, so just to confirm: do you use the latest version 5.20?
Just because there were numerous changes (I mean complete redesign) in tray-icon specific code.
So may be good idea to check and verify 5.01 (the previous) and 5.20 (the current) version, just to check if they work similarly on your setup or if any version seems "better" in this field.

Good day.

Why change the window title at all? We do not see the window, it is just a icon - or is the window title what Windows uses to show tooltip?

I am on 5.20, but since I disabled HDS some time ago for the USB drives, all icons have disappeared from "customize" so I do not know if the problem is corrected.

I will try the new version and report back.

Thank you,

> Why change the window title at all? We do not see the window, it is just a icon - or is the window title what Windows uses to show tooltip?

Sorry I do not really understand what you mean "window title" when we discuss about the tray icons.
The tooltip is changed, yes, exactly to reflect the situation (to help identification of the drive which is related to the icon).

> I am on 5.20, but since I disabled HDS some time ago for the USB drives, all
> icons have disappeared from "customize" so I do not know if the problem is corrected.

Sorry, I also do not really understand....

Hi!

Lol, I /think/ that what Windows uses to identify different tray icons is the window title? or the icon title? or whatever the hell it is that keeps changing in the HDS tray icon when a new drives becomes the one that has the highest temperature. It is still doing it with v5.20, with each disk making its own icon, instead of having 1 icon for all disks, even if I set HDS to show only 1 tray icon, showing only the one disk with the highest temperature.

I think a screenshot can explain, see here -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/9pb14e9p58wyz ... e.png?dl=1

Best Regards,

Hi Janos.

Did you look at the screenshot? Do you understand what I mean now?

Thank you.
Best Regards,

Thanks for the image.

Generally there is a confusion on the image:

Hard Disk Sentinel Tray Application and Hard Disk Sentinel on the image are completely different things.

When Hard Disk Sentinel runs in default, application mode, it shows the tray icon(s) as configured (for example showing the highest temperature if configured to do so).

If you switch to Service mode at Configuration -> Integration, then it can't display any information (and the tray icons) so then you may use the "Hard Disk Sentinel Tray" shortcut in Hard Disk Sentinel program group in order to display the icon(s). Then the icon(s) displayed based on the configuration (to show only the highest temperature).

But these should not be active at the same time of course, just one of them.

So there is no "change in window title" or similar: there are completely two different parts which designed to display the tray icon(s) based on the current operation mode (application or service mode).
It seems you may switched between modes and used both to display the icons which may caused confusion for you. Sorry for that.


I completely understand what you mean.

> Lol, I /think/ that what Windows uses to identify different tray icons is the window title?
> or the icon title?

No, this is different....

> it is that keeps changing in the HDS tray icon when a new drives becomes the one that has the highest temperature.

Yes. HDS has a list of icons associated with the disk drives and display the one with the highest temperature. This is normal.
But yes, for Windows, when changed, it is a different icon as you can see.

I'm checking the possibilities to change the way to display one icon only - instead of switching between icons.

Good day Janos.

Ah, you are correct, one of the icons is from the real program, but the other 3 are from hdsentineltray.exe.

It does this all the time, switching icons, so I have to go back and tell windows to "yes show this icon" because by default Windows hides them.

I did not know you created one icon per drive and showed only the one with the highest temperature, it explains how Windows is behaving. A single icon would be great! No rush, not as important as other people with 30 SAS disks asking for help, but it would be nice not to have to tell windows "yes show this icon" all the time.

Thanks again!
Best Regards,