Just a quick poll:
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RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two clocks, CPU meter, network monitor and Windows Search indexer monitor.
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Gadgets are a waste of resources. Besides, it's almost always covered up anyway.
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Blue Ink
C you
Technically, there's no Windows Sidebar in W7. But I regularly use a couple of gadgets, if that was the question.
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blowdart
Peek-a-boo
40 minutes ago, Blue Ink wrote
Technically, there's no Windows Sidebar in W7. But I regularly use a couple of gadgets, if that was the question.
Sure there is - look at the processes running - sidebar.exe
I have a traffic map for the roads around MS, and then 3 clocks, 5 temperature gadgets,
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Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
I have two weather gadgets, a clock, and a CPU monitor.
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
I like to keep as few things open as possible, I view 'system monitoring' gadgets as being a tad pointless: modern computers should not need monitoring by design.
If there's 'widget-sized' information I need like unread email count, the current weather, or upcoming calendar appointments I've got my docked iPhone for that.
In a way, Vista's 'sidebar' concept makes more sense from a usability perspective, but to me it's all just a gimmick. The sidebar gadgets are just a really poor version of OS X's Dashboard (which does the job properly): they're not the prettiest, there's barely any animation effects, they don't scale, etc.
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Proton2
There... Are... Four... Lights!
I wanted to make a sidebar gadget with C#, but I couldn't, so I didn't bother.
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vesuvius
Count Orlock
I use the weather gadget on my phone, and realised a few weeks ago that I always look at the bottom right hand corner to view the time so a clock gadet was pointless.
They do make your desktop look attractive though if you have a dual monitor set-up
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Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
I use a gadget that tells me which trash to put out for collection next morning.
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Zeus
Why is the caption missing??
5 weather gadgets, Gmail calendar gadget and a Remember the Milk gadget.
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Blue Ink
C you
@blowdart: Yes, of course. But considering how it's no longer on a side and not much of a bar, I'm all for the new name as it's way more descriptive
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magicalclick
remember the flow
CPU + RAM,
RSS Photo Slideshow (I subscribe dailypuppy and use it to get cute puppies on my desktop.)
Bing Traffic
Temperature.
(Remove Stock, because I own some stock and I totally don't want to see it up and down. Too scray. )
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CaRDiaK
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Currently running Metro home, a nice WP7 style clock / weather gadget and Notes.
That's it.
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littleguru
<3 Seattle
I was never a huge fan of widgets. I don't know I really like a lean and mean desktop...
But I love the strategy of a friend of mine when it comes to clean up the desktop. He uses a folder that he calls "Old desktop" and drags everything in that folder. Whatever he needs he drags back out. And then he created another "Old desktop" folder and does the same stuff again. He has like 50 nest "Old Desktop" on his desktop.
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magicalclick
remember the flow
??? I am lost. What is he trying to do?
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CaRDiaK
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
@littleguru: Check out Stardock's fences app... You can group items on your desktop into fences, also, if you double click blank area on your desktop, you hide everything you haven't told it to hide. I think its a cool and useful application.
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@sysrpl: I run a weather gadget and a CPU meter gadget, though I'm not especially attached to them.
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