Questions tagged [desktop-gadget]
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How to change background image of Rainmeter system.ini
Rainmeter is a useful tool for creating desktop widgets. I'm using system.ini skin, it's transparent but I want some opaque background.
The system.ini file has these lines:
[Rainmeter]
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Earthquakes Gadget - update server location
I know that MS is not supporting the gadgets anymore.
Nevertheless I like those from http://addgadgets.com/ and have most of them in operation.
Since a few weeks now the Earthquakes Meter does not ...
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Does Windows 7 have any stock widget software that replaces Gadgets?
I know that Gadgets was discontinued for security, and I know you can bring it back if you want. But, is there a stock, Microsoft created alternative for pinning a program like a webpage to the ...
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Windows 10 reclaimed Win+G. I want it for gadgets
I installed the Windows Gadgets from gadgetsrevived.com on my Windows 10 install. The gadgets work fine, but I'm used to using Win+G to bring them to the front. It appears that Windows 10 ...
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Where can I enable the Desktop Gadgets in Window 10?
I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and I miss the Desktop Gadgets from Windows 7. What happened to them and can I bring them back?
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How can I pin useful images (screenshots, color palettes, cheat-sheets) to the desktop in Windows 7 so they're actually visible?
I used to have half-a-dozen sheets of paper pinned up on the wall behind my screen - things like the .NET string format cheat sheet, Powershell quick reference, the hex codes for our corporate colour ...
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How to remove off-screen desktop gadget?
I was stupidly messing around with one of my desktop gadgets, and I ended up getting it stuck in the corner of the screen so much that the x-button won't show anymore. This is a big problem because ...
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Windows 7 text input/graphics repainting in random areas
In the past few months I've been encountering this issue where the line of text being typed in the command prompt window reappears in a random place on screen and paints over whatever was previously ...
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Sticky notes on windows 7
I have Sticky notes running as a widget on windows 7. I would like to do the following
Change that front to arial narrow and BOLD. I am aware of the font change fix. How do I get the bold in there
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Why gadgets are avoided in Windows 8? [closed]
In Windows 7, there were gadgets like clock, calender, weather etc. But in Windows 8, no gadgets are there.
Why Microsoft avoided gadgets in Windows 8 ?
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What is the command line to start a gadget in Windows 7?
I need to make sure that some Windows 7 gadget is running at a specific time of day (10am) for an user.
Surely, I can start it once and let it run forever, but the user may accidentally or ...
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Windows 7 Gadgets broken/missing
First off, this is not a dupe of this question: Windows 7 - gadgets disappeared
My Gadgets disappeared from my desktop. When I right-click on the desktop and then Gadgets to attempt to bring them ...
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Why are Windows 7 (64 bit) clock desktop gadget hands not in centre?
My clock gadget has been working fine for over a year since I installed Windows.
Now the clock gadget's hands have started to pivot from a position that is centred horizontally but not vertically.
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Can a set view of a webpage turned into something like a desktop widget?
edit I'm interested to do this on Windows, Linux and Mac. :)
I am curious if there is already a way to create something like a desktop widget out of only a selected part of a webpage.
There are many ...
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Windows 7 CPU / System meter that ISNT a gadget [closed]
Now that gadgets have been pulled by Microsoft, is there any similar utility that I can use to monitor my system that will sit on the desktop as a gadget does but not present a vulnerability?
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Permanently place Desktop gadget slightly outside of desktop
If you drag a Desktop gadget slightly outside your normal desktop borders, Windows will revert the position back to normal on your next logon. How can I prevent this?
Gadget was dragged 2-3cm to the ...
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Windows 7 - "Alt-tab" gadget or application to show miniatures of all open apps in a window
I'm looking for some kind of persistent "alt-tab" window, which woul allow to see miniatures of active windows, as the Alt+Tab shortcut does (but can't be always shown AFAIK).
Some ideas or cool apps ...
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CPU Usage Gadget doesn't stay "always on top"
This seems very trivial, but for the past 3 years I have not found a solution. I have the cpu gadget on the side bar. I have it checked to be "always on top". However after a while, seemingly randomly,...
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Win7 widget: RSS/Feed Headlines has stop symbol when hovering
As you can see from the picture I get a stop symbol (PrtScn doesn't capture cursor, so I edited that in) & no images load. This happens on multiple different feeds, so I have trouble believing ...
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open .gadget files with windows os again [closed]
To see the contents of a .gadget file I selected notepad on default program prompt after installing the .gadget.exe file (I don't know how I actually did it now).
But now everytime I open a .gadget ...
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Cannot install Windows 7 gadgets (third party) from a laptop I bought in Thailand?
I bought a laptop at an official Acer store in Thailand. It has Windows 7 Premium on it and the locale setting is English (United States). However I noticed that I am unable to upgrade to another ...
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Are there any safe source of Windows 7 desktop gadgets?
After much painstaking searching, I haven’t been able to find any gadgets (e.g., GPU, weather, etc.) for my Windows 7 desktop. There are some gadget websites but they are riddled with adware and/or of ...
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Desktop Widget Fails to AutoStart When I Boot Up my Windows 7 PC?
I have a Desktop Widget called Horloger (third party not official Microsoft) (I believe the term Widget is no longer used, and they are now called Gadgets) which would autostart on booting up my PC, ...
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Where can I download Windows 7 gadgets
I like Windows 7's gadgets, and have just noticed you can no longer download them by clicking Get more gadgets online in the Gadgets window.
Are they still available online somewhere?
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Alternative to Desktop Gadgets in Windows 8 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I get back desktop Gadgets?
I love desktop gadgets from Windows 7 (calendar, time, CPU usage) and now I am on Windows 8.
I know that those things are removed by Microsoft ...
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All the Windows Desktop Gadgets are removed in Windows 8? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I get back desktop Gadgets?
All the Windows Desktop Gadgets are removed in Windows 8 or we can get the RSS feed or Weather on desktop?
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Can I get back desktop Gadgets?
There is no option to add desktop Gadgets in Windows 8 desktop view, Can i still get them back, without having to use untrusted third party software?
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Meter for Intel Turbo frequency
I have a laptop with Core i7 2630QM (Base freq 2GHz TurboBoost2 upto 2.9 GHz).
I was always curious about to view the dynamic overclocking that occurs in i-series when it is subjected to heavy loads.
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desktop gadgets obscure icons
I'm using Windows 7 with pretty basic configuration. I have a few dekstop gadgets (clock, cpu and network meter, etc) which for some reason obscure the desktop icons. As far as I could understand this ...
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Free gadget to group desktop icons
Is there a free gadget to group desktop icons in Windows 7?
Something akin to commercial Ve Best Icon Groups.
Fine even if it's simpler, as long as:
the icons can be dragged to the group to be ...
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Windows 7 Desktop Gadget with TODO List Items which include notes? [closed]
I'm looking for a TODO list gadget for Windows 7 that includes the ability to add notes to the individual TODO List items.
I found MyTodo List 1.4.1 but it doesn't really have this ability.
Alarms ...
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How can I replace a gadget that I accidentally removed from my gadgets folder?
I accidentally uninstalled a third party gadget from the gadgets folder on my windows 7 machine. When I tried to replace the same folder in the path C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets, the ...
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Where could I search between windows desktop gadgets
Formerly I could search on Microsoft website (Think gallery.live.com) for a bunch of gadgets and access to thousands of them. But What happened that now there are only some limit number of gadgets ...
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can't download new windows desktop gadgets
I've set up the pre-installed Windows 7 (enterprise) desktop gadgets on my laptop (weather, news), and would like to download & install some more from Microsoft's online offering. But when I find ...
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Desktop alarm clock/reminder/weather report application for Windows XP
I have a 7 inch netbook. I want to use it as a router. Windows XP installed on it. I configured everything and it is working as an access point now. I want to use its 7 inch screen as an alarm clock. ...
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I need a tool like Task Manager that shows top applications that are taking CPU [closed]
I need a light weight tool (somehow like Task Manager) or desktop gadget that shows top applications that are taking CPU. Task Manager is not so good because it lists ALL applications, and that is a ...
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Windows 7 gadget or app that shows stats on multiple network interfaces?
I am looking for a Windows 7 gadget or app that I can leave on my desktop/sidebar. While there are many gadgets that will display network interface info (such as current IP, gateway, etc), what I ...
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Are there any alternative RSS Gadget for Windows 7? [closed]
I would like to have a minimalistic RSS Feed Reader for my Windows 7. For that, I think a Gadget would be a good fit. And there is the default RSS Gadget. But it is really bad, because it's animated ...
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How can I add a RSS Feed to the Windows 7 RSS Gadget?
I use Windows 7 and I can add gadgets to the sidebar. One of the gadget is an RSS reader. How can I add a RSS Feed to it? At the moment I have no feeds. I would like to have one from StackOverflow.
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Windows 7 - gadgets disappeared
I'm using the weather gadget on my desktop, and today out of the blue it disappeared!
but not completely, there's a (i) icon there and you can see the close button (X) when you move the mouse over it.....
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Any way to enforce Windows 7 to run 32-bit sidebar.exe?
Is there any way to enforce Windows 7 to run 32-bit sidebar.exe instead of 64-bit?
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Is there a todo-list /tasks widget that will sync with Google Tasks? [closed]
I'd like to be able to see an at-a-glance view of Google tasks on my desktop (XP). Has anyone found a Yahoo widget or Google gadget that will do this?
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Where can I find a feed reader gadget verified by Microsoft?
I want a feed reader gadget for Windows 7. I search in News and feed gadgets, but can't find any verified feed reader.
Where can I find a feed reader verified by Microsoft?
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Windows 7 Gadgets no longer always-on-desktop
On my machine, the gadgets suddenly stopped staying on desktop if I press show desktop like other applications.
They are visible when I use the "peek desktop" feature, the win+g combo works and they ...
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Why do all the Windows Desktop Gadgets tell me my 4 core processor has 8 cores?
Why do all the Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets tell me my 4 core processor has 8 cores? I have an Intel i7 870 with 4 cores. Yet every gadget I try tells me I have 8. Whats up?
Thanks
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Windows 7 64-bit HTML content being rendered as text
Odd problem that I noticed one day; applications that use HTML or some XML variant to render content now have that content displayed as text, such as desktop gadgets & computer management. I have ...
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Windows 7 Gadgets doesn't appear properly
For some reason, Gadgets in my Windows 7 OS stopped displaying properly. Did a little research on internet and found that UAC may be the culprit. However, despite putting UAC on level 2, they still ...
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Can on mouse over delay to show a gadget's "toolbar" be changed on Windows 7?
When you hover your mouse over a gadget in Windows 7 a small toolbar appears on the right side with buttons for closing/moving/changing options. With gadgets that use mouse interaction this appearing/...
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Install the default weather gadget on Windows 7
I have uninstalled the default weather gadget by accident (right-click any gadget and press "uninstall").
Now I want to get it back (the 3rd party gadgets don't seem as attractive as the standard one)...
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No widgets available in Windows 7 Pro
I have no options anywhere for desktop widgets in Windows 7.
At first, I thought it was because of my UAC settings, so I looked into registry hacks for that. The sidebar registry setting is ...
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