{"id":1623,"date":"2020-06-14T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:54:03","slug":"check-the-status-of-your-disks-with-drive-activity-monitor-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/1623\/check-the-status-of-your-disks-with-drive-activity-monitor-gadget\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Activity Monitor gadget checks disk status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; margin: 11px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/img\/DrActMon.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Live Gadgets\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is a program or process using your hard drive? If you need to check when your drives are used, to investigate further what program uses them without you doing anything, this is a gadget you will appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>Is this program doing its job, as you expect?<\/p>\n<p>You can place Drive Activity Monitor on your desktop to make sure your drive(s) are active or inactive, as they are supposed to do, or for any other reason you&#8217;d like to monitor their status.<\/p>\n<p>Drive Activity Monitor is checked for viruses and it&#8217;s safe.<\/p>\n<p>Run the .gadget file to start enjoying it immediately, or save it on your disk to install later.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gadgets\/DriveActivityMonitor.gadget.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Drive Activity Monitor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a program or process using your hard drive? If you need to check when your drives are used, to investigate further what program uses them without you doing anything, this is a gadget you will appreciate. Is this program doing its job, as you expect? You can place Drive Activity Monitor on your desktop\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/1623\/check-the-status-of-your-disks-with-drive-activity-monitor-gadget\/\">Read More: Drive Activity Monitor gadget checks disk status &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,594],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-utilities","tag-drives","tag-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windowslivegadgets.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}