dSupport icon with system info

[Xander / Prompt Care]

Okay, a couple of years ago I came across a site of a concept designer who had the simple idea that the icon for the drive could reflect its health.  This was back in the XP days, before Vista/7 were even showing the Free Space in their icons.

I tried finding the page I'd found years back but no luck.  Here's the gist of it:  The hard drive's icon would be dynamic.  It would show not only how full it is but reflect its health (red/green fill) and fragmentation level (a light/heavy fog over it)

This idea has haunted me for some time and I've brainstormed how to do it but they all involve have a hundred icons stored in the exe (or the sk1llz to make/layer them on the fly)

[Foolish Tech]

Icons during runtime that appear in the taskbar can easily be changed.  But I'm sure you mean desktop icon.  Only thing I can think of is to change the icon associated with the .LNK shortcut to dSupport.  That might in some cases require a flush/rebuild of Windows icon cache though :(

[Xander / Prompt Care]

In my brain, I see this anywhere the drive is represented.

This isn't a D7 suggestion, by any means, but maybe I can pass on the pestering idea of an idea to someone who might just be able to make it happen.