Network icon in systray

Anyone found a subsitute for the MS icon? I really miss the animated network activity in the new blank version. I've seen a few programs that monitor data TxRx but few are free and none that I've seen has a small systray activity icon.

Another highly useful feature removed by M$. Maybe the CPU processing power it required was given to Aero. So far I haven't seen any decent 3rd party replacement, although I'm sure someone is working on one now. Let us know if you eventually find one.

This freebie seems to work.. Lanlights

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

It does more than the old systray icon used to.. eg- keeps track of throughput details and has options for traceroute and ping/resolve DNS but it doesn't seem to impact resources too much. Takes up about 3-4megs of ram and little processor requirements. I'll play with it for a couple of days and update again.

EDIT- it uses about 2% CPU while running. Not so bad I guess but ~2% more than the old xp type systray icon. I can't imagine any third party program using much less, realistically, but I'll keep looking 'round.

2nd EDIT- the ping and tracert don't seem to work so well in Windows 7.. it freezes up the program but the icon and throughput data seems ok. As I said... I'll keep looking.

There's a sidebar gadget here:

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/secu...stagadgets.htm

Personally I'm spoilt, I just open Task Manager or Resource Monitor on my secondary monitor. Then I get very frustrated whenever I have to use a rig with only one monitor.

Well I'm spoilt too. I've mentioned before that I run three Monitors. Normally I have my Email on my left one, the Performance graph on the right one and surf and use programs on the main middle one and shift whatever I want overtop the left and right as needed. I guess I'm double spoilt, I'd go nutz if I had to use one Monitor.

Thanks SS that one looks useful. I'll try it out.

I'm getting very used to my 2nd monitor too... now that I have two lcd monitors as opposed to one lcd and a crt as my secondary I leave the 2nd on all the time and use it far more often.