My (Windows 7) laptop has (for reasons that baffle me) it's hard drive LED light on the side of the machine, making it not-visible when I'm typing on it or playing games. I use a third party program called DriveGLEAM which puts an icon on the Windows taskbar and flashes when the hard drive is working, which is great of course, but is only visible when the task bar is visible. When playing full-screen games the icon isn't visible, so when the game isn't moving (say when it's on a loading screen) I sometimes wonder if it's crashed, since the hard drive is too quiet to be heard (especially when on the train - I commute to work).

Basically what I looking for is a Windows program that will flash the CAPS LOCK LED (which is on the CAPS LOCK key, they got that design decision right) when the hard drive is being used. But all of the show-hard-drive-access programs I've tried only show the hard drive status via the Windows task bar, so I thought I'd ask here, as it seems likely that some VOGONS members might have had this problem in the past with desktop or laptops, and might know of a program to provide the solution.

Thanks for any answers.