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The Drive Icon Daemon Tool
What Is Drive Label Daemon?
First of all... what the hell is a daemon? The exact mean of the word I don't know. Probably the "mon" stands for "Monitor". But I know that a Daemon is a program that runs on the background and wait something happen to do some usefull task.
Your computer is running, probably, several daemons. If you had installed MMPM/2, probably you have the MIDIDMON.EXE running. It's a daemon that do something I really don't know. But you may also have the WATCHCAT.EXE, the WatchCat daemon. The Watchcat daemon waits until some type of action to activate the Full Screen Watchcat. If you had installed IBM AV, probably you have the IAVTIMO2.EXE. The IAVTIMOS2.EXE is a daemon that launches the IBM AV from time to time to check the integrity of your system.
Well... now you already knows what is a daemon, right? But what the hell is a Drive Label Daemon?
If you have lots of partitions on your harddisks (in my case, I have "only" 17 drive letters, from A to Q!) you know that is almost impossible remember where have you put "that program" only by the drive letter.
One possible solution is to assign labels to the partitions (this is the solution I use), so the J: may the the OS/2 PROGS partition and the M: may be the MUSICS partition. This helps you to organize your files in a way you can fastly find them... you may use partitions as "fixed size folders". Well, this is ok, but if you already had tried to change the folders' titles, you had noticed that sometimes you restart your system... Puf! The all come back to the good and old "Drive X" name. This is very annoying. Even "legacy systems" (like Windows 9x, Windows NT and Windows 2k) have a better way to display the drives names!
Another problem that frequently is shown by this method is: if you change the drive label, you still have to change the icon title on WPS... besides, this methot is not a good solution for CDRoms or ZIP Disks.
So I had the idea: I'll make a daemon that reads the labels from all disks, from time to time and change the drive icon titles, updating them with the volume label. And the result is Drive Label Daemon... a program that updates the drives icon names with their labels.
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