v26.4 is officially out now.

Hey, great Jorge - that was quick!

That leaves my issue with the desktop Disk mod and not being able to change the data text fields, but it'll keep for now.

Wait, what? What did I miss?

Just this, excerpted from my last post on previous page -

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You put that text inside quotes, that is why I never even looked at it. Newbie!

To answer your questions:

1. You cannot change the data that appears in the desktop module version of the Disk Meter, only skinners can do that when making a theme (just like it happens with the other desktop modules). The data you can select in the Settings panel is related to the iconic version of the module.

2. The Explorer crash bug was only introduced in v25.9 after adding multi-select, as I had to change the code so you could drag multiple items at once.

Argh! Didn't spot that, wasn't meant to happen. I think 'brain fart' is the term...

1. Ah right. That's not so bad - an iconic one is the only thing I'd use myself, just 1 drive.

2. Oops, didn't read that properly in your OP. I claim Old Age.

Ok, content of the Winstep Xtreme and Nexus pages re-written and re-organized so it isn't such a "feature dump", with a bit of a face-lift too.

Still have to re-do a ton of the screenshots.

"Buy me a Beer" has already produced some fruits too... not much, but something is always better than nothing.

Good start. But there are still large parts of text that really need revising.

Excellent! Definitely better than nothing, and always bear in mind this old English adage Jorge - 'From tiny acorns mighty oaks doth grow'.

Got to test the iconic Drive mod also by now - pity the text options are so limited. What I would really need would be 'total read' and 'total written', speed is of very little interest really - heck it's fast, so what? Odd thing happened with the desktop mod - it suddenly showed a USB stick (1TB, not mine alas!) as an SSD USB drive! Must have fooled Windows, I guess.

Are you still going to do an "All Drives" mod sometime BTW, Jorge? Now that really would be useful here, especially if info options include total read and total written.

You mean total read and total written for the lifetime of the drive? If so, that is a SMART value and is only available for SSDs.

Unfortunately most SSD vendors like to use proprietary protocols... getting the temperature was already bad enough lol



Personally I find it a lot more useful than "total bytes written". Allows you to see two things at a glance: how heavily a drive is being utilized, if it is, and actual transfer speeds. Even Windows shows that information in the dialog when copying or moving files.



LOL. Those are actually not incompatible. USB is the bridge/protocol used to communicate with the drive, SSD is the type of storage media. High‑end USB 3.1/3.2 sticks (Sandisk Extreme Pro, Samsung Bar Plus, Kingston HyperX) will sometimes identify as SSDs.



Eh? You mean not just fixed disks?

Can users reading this please open the Settings panel for the Battery module and report back if they see (or not) the dialog opening and then immediately closing again by itself ?

I've already changed the code here so this won't happen any more but it seems to be intermittent (and it had never happened before). The behavior was caused by a simulated click on the event log text box to force it to scroll to the end, but the Cancel button was stealing focus for some reason and intercepting the click.

Good grief, no, that would be ridiculous. No, just the current session total for SSDs, HDDs, and USB drives (only whatever's recognised by Windows).

Oh no, same as above - just SSDs, HDDs, and USB SSDs/HDDs.

I should be able to check the issue in your next post sometime this evening, I hope. Dealing with a major problem with my main laptop - power supply died, but luckily Lenovo laptops all use the same on, it seems so can use the one from my second laptop. Should be getting a secondhand one within a week or two from my tech guy. Worse is, the left Alt key got destroyed when I accidentally dropped something heavy! At least for Windows login can use Ctrl - Alt Gr - Del instead, but in Linux the Alt Gr key is used for modifying letters (and other things), and the left Alt one is rather heavily used for all kinds of things, inc. as a KB shortcut for the secure delete (wipe) function in combo with the Del key. Alas, unlikely to find a s/h KB so I'll just have to live without the L Alt for now.

And if all that wasn't bad enough... Things always come in threes, to paraphrase the saying! My new-ish desktop (that used to be my friend's server, though I sold parts of it before re-building and bought just an 8/16 core CPU and lower PSU and a decent GFX and sound card) got pretty much destroyed when the PSU created an internal surge (I've got surge protection from the mains to everything) and burst into flames! I was able to put it out fairly quickly, but the damage was done. :/ Thank goodness I used an old all-metal case - if it had been plastic it could have been a lot worse! Not sure if anything's salvageable, tech guy's coming over tomorrow to check it out. An external USB disk that was connected at the time certainly got killed by the surge.

The third thing is I have to go in for some scans and x-rays on Friday, and doubt there's much they can do, unless they can refer me to the Supervet Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick - he could sort my neck good for sure if he was allowed to operate on humans.

Well, that's three then. So it goes...

Ouch...

So sorry... many years ago I also had a PSU blow up on me, that was a really scary experience. Took out the video card too.

Anyway, hope things get better... when it rains, it pours. Sigh.

It never rains. Only pours. Thanks anyway, Jorge. Alas, very little salvageable, and apart from the case (just needs a good clean) only some individual components like the DDR5s from the GFX card (DDR6 hadn't arrived yet at the time), half the DDR4 RAM, etc.Tech guy offered buying anything I don't have use for, but given all the help etc. I've had and continue to have from him no way I can accept payment.

We'd been discussing upgrading the machine as my GFX etc. that I intend to work on will need something even beefier. Perhaps 12-core, 128Gig RAM, at least 4 good GPUs, and more, and he'd get me the parts as cheaply as possible. Can't afford to do anything at all right now, but might be able to in the summer perhaps, if a couple of editing jobs work out in the next two months and one ghost writing one that's pretty much a dead cert. already. Major funds needed I'm sure, so I'll have to be quite tough negotiating. Either that, or I'll have to become an old age gigolo.

LOL That might work...