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Drives Monitor Changelog

What's new in Drives Monitor 18.0

Nov 30, 2023
  • Added the ability to work with network drives. Fixed bug with incorrect display of unallocated drives in the popup window. Modified some procedures. Cleaned up the code. Adjusted some default settings. Enhanced usability.

New in Drives Monitor 17.8 (Nov 16, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug related to opening mounted drives in Explorer and improved usability.

New in Drives Monitor 17.7 (Oct 22, 2023)

  • Improved work with unallocated drives.

New in Drives Monitor 17.6 (Oct 7, 2023)

  • Overhauled and decreased HTML and code. (Released at 06/10/2023).

New in Drives Monitor 17.5 (Aug 10, 2023)

  • Update French translations.

New in Drives Monitor 17.4 (Jul 27, 2023)

  • Update Japenese translations.

New in Drives Monitor 17.3 (Jul 1, 2023)

  • Added Romanian translation by Tudor Sprinceana. (Released at 07/01/2023).

New in Drives Monitor 17.2 (May 14, 2023)

  • Added “Display a pop-up window if the amount of free disk space is critically low” options on #3 settings tab.

New in Drives Monitor 17.1 (Mar 18, 2023)

  • Overhauled and decreased HTML. Updated Turkish translation by Burak Yavuz. (Released at 03/01/2023).

New in Drives Monitor 17.0 (Jul 12, 2022)

  • Added Croatian translation by Bruno Horvatic

New in Drives Monitor 16.9 (Nov 10, 2021)

  • Updated Italian translation by Roberto Boriotti.

New in Drives Monitor 16.8 (Feb 4, 2021)

  • Changed main gadget icon

New in Drives Monitor 16.7 (Aug 17, 2020)

  • Updated French translation by LogoLargo. (Released at 08/17/2020).

New in Drives Monitor 16.6 (Mar 12, 2020)

  • Added Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified translations by akjz

New in Drives Monitor 16.5 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • Improved usability.

New in Drives Monitor 16.4 (Aug 13, 2019)

  • Fixed bug with autoscale DPI under Windows 10

New in Drives Monitor 16.3 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • Cosmetic changes

New in Drives Monitor 16.2 (Apr 9, 2019)

  • Update Polish and Japenese translations.

New in Drives Monitor 16.1 (Apr 5, 2019)

  • Improved work with languages in settings

New in Drives Monitor 16.0 (Mar 4, 2019)

  • You can run more than one instance of the gadget with own individual settings. Fixed critical bug.

New in Drives Monitor 15.6 (Feb 27, 2019)

  • Changed algorithms: ordering of logical disks and excluded logical disks. Fixed bug with excluding physical disks

New in Drives Monitor 15.5 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Fixed bug with ordering of physical disks when number of physical disks more than 10.

New in Drives Monitor 15.4 (Oct 8, 2018)

  • The disk activity value is calculated more accurately.

New in Drives Monitor 15.3 (Oct 5, 2018)

  • Fixed bug with wrong activity graph output under Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

New in Drives Monitor 15.2 (Sep 24, 2018)

  • Fixed bug with overlap scale value on graph.

New in Drives Monitor 15 (Sep 10, 2018)

  • Some minor optimizations and code cleanup. Update Japanese translation.

New in Drives Monitor 14.9 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Added new settings tab. Reorganized settings

New in Drives Monitor 14.8 (Aug 7, 2018)

  • Fixed bug with sizing

New in Drives Monitor 14.6 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Minor improvements. Fixed bug.

New in Drives Monitor 14.5 (Dec 27, 2017)

  • More accuracy working with digits. Fixed bug occur when computer resumed from sleep mode

New in Drives Monitor 14.4 (Dec 18, 2017)

  • Fixed text overlaps. Improve code. Change default settings values

New in Drives Monitor 14.2 (Sep 4, 2017)

  • Update Polish translation.

New in Drives Monitor 14.1 (Apr 24, 2017)

  • Minor improvements.

New in Drives Monitor 13.9 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • Overhauled HTML. Added Dutch translation

New in Drives Monitor 13.8 (Jan 13, 2017)

  • Improve code. Improve settings usability.

New in Drives Monitor 13.7 (Nov 21, 2016)

  • Delimiter between disks added.

New in Drives Monitor 13.6 (Apr 21, 2016)

  • New settings added (#4 tab). Reorganize settings. Update Polish, Japanese and German translations.

New in Drives Monitor 13.5 (Mar 3, 2016)

  • New setting added (#5 tab). Improve HTML.

New in Drives Monitor 13.4 (Feb 29, 2016)

  • New settings added (#5 tab).

New in Drives Monitor 13.3 (Jan 13, 2016)

  • Fixed wrong flyout output. Fixed Belorussian translation.

New in Drives Monitor 13.2 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • Fixed wrong settings output. Added Belorussian translation.

New in Drives Monitor 13.1 (Sep 26, 2015)

  • Cosmetic changes in Japanese translation.

New in Drives Monitor 13.0 (Sep 20, 2015)

  • Allow change color for Disk Queue Length information. Improve code.

New in Drives Monitor 12.9 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • Allow change color for disk total, used and free numbers.

New in Drives Monitor 12.8 (Aug 15, 2015)

  • Fixed working with physical disks under Windows 10.

New in Drives Monitor 12.7 (Aug 14, 2015)

  • Improve code. Fixed working with logical disks under Windows 10.

New in Drives Monitor 12.6 (May 21, 2015)

  • Cosmetic improvements.

New in Drives Monitor 12.4 (Mar 7, 2015)

  • Alllow hide graph in physical drives mode. Change update notifier algorithm.

New in Drives Monitor 12.3 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Added Japanese translation

New in Drives Monitor 12.2 (May 12, 2014)

  • Allow change graphs height from 20 to 99px.

New in Drives Monitor 12.1 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • Added Disk Queue Length information. Make Disk Queue Length clickable for get more information about it.

New in Drives Monitor 12.0 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Improve code. Improve main timer algorithm. Move mouse over read/write counter for show appropriate value in bytes.

New in Drives Monitor 11.9 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • Improve code

New in Drives Monitor 11.8 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Added Czech translation

New in Drives Monitor 11.7 (Jun 19, 2013)

  • Added Hindi translation

New in Drives Monitor 11.6 (Jun 15, 2013)

  • Fixed Polish translation

New in Drives Monitor 11.5 (Jun 10, 2013)

  • Added Polish translation

New in Drives Monitor 11.4 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Added Slovak translation

New in Drives Monitor 11.3 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • Fixed bugs in settings.

New in Drives Monitor 11.2 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • Fixed health status icon. Fixed French translation

New in Drives Monitor 11.1 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Fixed bugs

New in Drives Monitor 11.0 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Shows disks temperatures (You must run CrystalDiskInfo on the background)

New in Drives Monitor 10.8 (Jan 28, 2013)

  • Fixed Indonesian translation

New in Drives Monitor 10.7 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • Added Italian translation

New in Drives Monitor 10.6 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Added Save disks mode and letters/numbers (#2 settings tab).

New in Drives Monitor 10.5 (Dec 22, 2012)

  • Added Indonesian translation

New in Drives Monitor 10.4 (Nov 23, 2012)

  • Determine enable or disable performance counters

New in Drives Monitor 10.3 (Nov 19, 2012)

  • Added Catalonian translation

New in Drives Monitor 10.2 (Nov 6, 2012)

  • Fixed flyout under Windows 8

New in Drives Monitor 10.1 (Nov 5, 2012)

  • Added Autoscale DPI option (#1 settings tab).

New in Drives Monitor 10.0 (Nov 3, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs

New in Drives Monitor 9.9 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Improve code

New in Drives Monitor 9.8 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • Added French translation

New in Drives Monitor 9.6 (Aug 20, 2012)

  • Fixed bug in flyout.

New in Drives Monitor 9.5 (Jun 19, 2012)

  • Added German translation

New in Drives Monitor 9.4 (Jun 13, 2012)

  • Added Spanish translation

New in Drives Monitor 9.3 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added Turkish translation

New in Drives Monitor 9.2 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Now working under Windows 8 Release Preview.

New in Drives Monitor 9.1 (Jun 4, 2012)

  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translation

New in Drives Monitor 9.0 (May 16, 2012)

  • Added Ukrainian and Russian languages.

New in Drives Monitor 8.4 (Apr 18, 2012)

  • Improve open disk in explorer procedure

New in Drives Monitor 8.3 (Mar 5, 2012)

  • Improve procedures.

New in Drives Monitor 8.2 (Feb 22, 2012)

  • Added "Restore factory default settings" button. Fixed hang when opening Disk Management.

New in Drives Monitor 8.1 (Feb 22, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs

New in Drives Monitor 8.0 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • Working with harddisk volumes.

New in Drives Monitor 7.9 (Feb 8, 2012)

  • Working with mounted drives.

New in Drives Monitor 7.8 (Jan 13, 2012)

  • Fixed bug with wrong output bar in case ejecting USB drive.

New in Drives Monitor 7.7 (Jan 10, 2012)

  • Click on drive's letter (number) will open flyout for appropriate physical disk. Correct S/N output.

New in Drives Monitor 7.5 (Jan 5, 2012)

  • Click on drive's letter (number) opened flyout.

New in Drives Monitor 7.3 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Determine format and eject modes for USB drives.

New in Drives Monitor 7.1 (Dec 30, 2011)

  • Allow remove USB drives from gadget. Fixed bugs.

New in Drives Monitor 7.0 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • Allow remove USB drives from gadget.

New in Drives Monitor 6.4 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • Fixed bugs.

New in Drives Monitor 6.3 (Dec 23, 2011)

  • Optimize code.

New in Drives Monitor 6.2 (Dec 23, 2011)

  • Allow user exclude physical drives by their numbers.

New in Drives Monitor 6.1 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Fixed long label output.

New in Drives Monitor 6.0 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Added determine disk information for mounted drives.

New in Drives Monitor 5.7 (Nov 26, 2011)

  • Did read/write counters more accuracy.

New in Drives Monitor 5.6 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Added read/write counters. Added custom refresh rate (1-999 sec).

New in Drives Monitor 5.5 (Nov 3, 2011)

  • Allow to hide mounted drives.

New in Drives Monitor 5.4 (Sep 24, 2011)

  • Fixed bug with open explorer window.

New in Drives Monitor 5.3 (Sep 13, 2011)

  • Fixed bug with fill graph type.

New in Drives Monitor 5.2 (Sep 9, 2011)

  • Added update notifier.
  • Very improved code.
  • Improved interface.

New in Drives Monitor 5.1 (Jul 23, 2011)

  • Added alternate method for calculation disk activity.

New in Drives Monitor 5.0 (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Fill graph settings added.

New in Drives Monitor 4.9 (May 3, 2011)

  • "Refresh time" setting added. Added change graph line width and hide gridlines on a graph.

New in Drives Monitor 4.7 (Apr 19, 2011)

  • Allow hide "Title" and "Copyright".

New in Drives Monitor 4.4 (Dec 10, 2010)

  • New setting added

New in Drives Monitor 4.3 (Oct 23, 2010)

  • Click on gadget - opens appropriate disk in Explorer

New in Drives Monitor 4.1 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Change numbers format.

New in Drives Monitor 4.0 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Added color changeable for all gadget's elements. Allow to hide hidden partitions.

New in Drives Monitor 3.7 (Sep 13, 2010)

  • Fixed FATAL error

New in Drives Monitor 3.6 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Used bar and some settings added. Critical bug fixed.

New in Drives Monitor 3.5 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Click on disk - open it in Explorer.

New in Drives Monitor 3.0 (May 14, 2010)

  • Added size adjustable.

New in Drives Monitor 2.0 (May 14, 2010)

  • Check for update button added

New in Drives Monitor 1.6.0 (Feb 17, 2010)

  • Logical disk labels output changed

New in Drives Monitor 1.5.0 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • Logical disk labels output added

New in Drives Monitor 1.4.0 (Feb 2, 2010)

  • Any error procedures added
  • Doubleclick on gadget - run Explorer.

New in Drives Monitor 1.2.0 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • Shows physical or logical hard drive activity.

New in Drives Monitor 1.1.0 (Jan 21, 2010)

  • Based on DriveMeter gadget developed by Hans Olav Norheim http://hansolav.net to physical drives this gadget adapted, changed and redesigned to logical drives