The Windows Magazine disk space meter provides a way for you to monitor the
available disk space on any drive connected to your computer on a minute-by
minute basis, indicating the space available on an animated pie-chart
display - which even works when iconized!

To install Disk Space Meter, copy the .EXE file, METER.EXE, to a
convenient directory (We reccomend you create a C:\METER directory). Also
copy the dynamic link library MSDOS.DLL to your main \WINDOWS directory; the
meter will not run properly without it. Finally, if you don't own Visual
Basic, and don't already have the Visual Basic runtime DLL (VBRUN100.DLL) on
your hard disk, copy that file to your Windows directory as well. You can
then use the "New..." option on the Program Manager's "File" menu to add
METER.EXE to the program group of your choice.

Double-clicking on the icon will run METER, with the default disk drive
(the one it's installed on) selected. You can change the drive with the
disk selector, or you can pass a drive identifier on the Windows command
line (beware - if you pass a bad drive identifier, meter will crash). Once
meter is launched, you can iconize it, and it will still indicate moment-by-
moment disk free space by animating a small pie chart on the icon.

For all the VB programmers out there (YOU know who you are!), full source
code is included, so feel free to modify it as you wish (we do ask that you
leave our name credited in the code, though) -- and if you're doing
something especially neat with it, let us know!

Feel free to pass meter around to your friends -- it's free!

The Editors of Windows Magazine