I see CrystalDiskInfo has email alerts, but they don't explain what it does. I'd like to have CrystalDiskInfo run in the background, where I dont' see it on the taskbar. And I'd like it to alert me if a HD on my system shows "Caution" or worse. The alert can be as a window that opens or an email alert. Can it be set up like this?
I would advise against that.
Use the portable version on CrystalDiskInfo, and just click on it, when you want to see the status of your drive.
The last thing anyone needs to do is have "another" process running on Win 10 or Win 11.
This is the direct link to the portable version...
Download CrystalDiskInfo9_2_3.zip (CrystalDiskInfo)
Just extract it to a folder... anywhere, and create a shortcut to: DiskInfo64.exe
Then you can pin that shortcut to the Taskbar or the START Menu.
I may have the portable version. In it's folder I double click on DiskInfo64.exe and the window opens. I wonder if I can have that start up with windows and if there's soemthing wrong send me an alert, but not show as a program on the taskbar, unless it needs to alert me
It's one click, whenever you want, and the program take about 2 seconds to show the result.
Windows 10 and 11 have about 3 or 4 times the processes running in the background that something like Win 7 did.
Save the extra power of today's computers for something... important.
No offense, but those two computers in your specs, don't "need" any extra overhead.
Not to mention that today's backup software, pretty much eliminates the need to be alerted that a drive may be failing.
With a backup... it doesn't matter if the drive fails.
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To try to answer your questions:
I have it installed. Here's how from its options:I wonder if I can have that start up with windows
You need to be able to mimimise it to the tray.but not show as a program on the taskbar
Here's how:
Get a copy of
Moo0 Window Menu Plus (free).
You'll need to set that to "Start on System Boot"
(E.g. run it, rt click tray option)
It uses under 6MB RAM.
That adds options when you rt click a program's title bar.
Click that one- and Crystal Disinfo will appear as a tray icon.
Considering Ghot's concern about resources- Crystal Diskinfo's RAM usage appears minimal.
Actually drive failure does matter- much depends on how frequently you create a disk image. If you e.g. create a differential image only ever month, then restoring an image up to a month old could lose you a month's data unless you take other precautions e.g. additional more frequent specific backup of data.
I can't comment on that. I guess that if you get an alert- it's time to investigate and run Crystal Diskinfo (or for a more intelligible appraisal, Hard Disk Sentinel (includes SSDs).I see CrystalDiskInfo has email alerts, but they don't explain what it does.
Touch of irony, though, in installing a program that's going to check the life of a drive, and that program set to run constantly/frequently reducing the life of a drive ....
1. Point is an alert on a drive beginning to fail (degrading)
2. If the drive is a data drive, SMART params could still be read
3. If the system drive catastrophically fails- well, who needs an alert?
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