

A live scrolling chart at the bottom displays disk activity and you can easily see when the disk it being heavily or lightly used. It also shows the total disk capacity and a bar showing usage. It shows the drive letter, the amount of disk space used and the amount of free space. It looks good with a graphic in the top left corner and colourful text – the colours can be customised in the settings.ĭrives Meter shows you everything you need to know about one or two disk drives. Mouse over the gadget and click the wrench icon to access the settings where you can set up a low battery warning alarm, and set the refresh interval for the gadget. You can see the amount of charge, whether it is fully charged, and the maximum charge. Here are a few interesting gadgets to get you started.īattery Meter is a simple gadget that shows the state of the battery. Other developers created some fine gadgets and a few are still available today for people continuing to run Windows 7. They partly died out because few people used them, but this was because Microsoft gave little support. It is a shame that Microsoft abandoned desktop gadgets because they were a great feature of Windows 7.
