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Lan connection icon in the task bar, how do I change "Packets" to "Megabytes"

In windows 2000 if you click on the LAN icon in the task bar, its properties open and show you MB Recieved and MB Sent.
In windows XP Pro (SP2) however the same action brings up Packets sent & Recieved.

Is it possible (I'm sure it is) to change Packets to MB?

This is handy (to me anyway) as I like to keep a running total of MB used.

Thanks.

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rsivanandan

Hi Tycoonlex,

If you are looking for a way to find out how much data is being transferred, then you can use some free tools to do this. One such thing can be found here at http://delphi.about.com/od/fullcodeprojects/l/aa112903a.htm

Cheers!
Rajesh

Tycoonlex

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I should have mentioned that i really hate 3rd party utilities, i have tried plenty of them but they all seem to get bogged down with
endless amounts of useless data - useless unless your a hacker or network administrator, and they are (yet) another program running in the background chewing up resourses......... Surely if it used to be able to show MB then
changing it back would be a matter of a setting somewhere or a registry edit.

I find it hard to believe that Microsoft has finally written something "out" of their code, almost everything that you liked about a previous version of windows can be restored in one way or another..........

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