My wife is a big Sudoku fan, and this gadget lets her play the puzzle game directly from the gadget itself. View a slideshow of your favorite photos within this handy gadget. As an alternative, check out SideTris, a neat version of the Tetris game. When it comes to gadget-based games, nothing beats this old-school classic (see Figure 8). If you use Microsoft Outlook, this gadget displays all your upcoming appointments directly on your desktop. Great for writersand students writing reports! This gadget lets you quickly and easily look up word definitions from the website. This gadget is where I most often get my weather information! Better than the default Weather gadget in Windows, this one displays current weather conditions and a five-day forecast click the Details link to see more detailed conditions.
This gadget displays all your Windows Live Messenger contacts and lets you initiate one-on-one chat sessions. Enable the option to start this application on boot, and you’re all set! Your gadgets will now start showing you temperatures.Figure 7 The Media Player, Messenger Gadget, MSN Weather, and My Dictionary gadgets. They have a huge collection of very useful gadgets you might like, check them out! Step 4: Install “PC_Meter”Įxtract the “PC_Temp_Meter.rar” file and just run “PCMeterV0.4.exe” as administrator. Those gadgets are different from the ones in the above pictures and are constantly updated (automatic updates). If that’s the case, get your gadgets from here and install them. NOTE: Some of these might not work for your specific CPU/GPU. Your gadget will appear on the desktop, and you can freely move it to be docked anywhere you want, and clicking on the options icon on it will give you tons of customization options like colors, graphs, information to be shown, alerts, etc. It will ask you if you want to install this gadget, click on “Install” and you’re done! Step 3: Install your gadgetsĮxtract the “Windows_7_Gadgets.rar” file you just downloaded and simply double-click on any gadget that you want installed.
You’ll need another small application called PC_Meter to be running in the background for these gadgets to read the CPU/GPU temperatures.ĭownload PC_Meter from here. RAR file for you to fire up and pimp your desktop like Xzibit just came to your hood looking for Windows 7 systems to modify. If you want the same gadgets as I have in the above screenshot, then I have packed them up in a neat. Let me show you how to get them! Step 1: Download the gadgets I have searched online for the best ones and most of them are all old, dried up, and do not support newer GPUs and CPUs, and so, are useless.īut, I’ve got this collection of constantly updating/improving gadgets that have tons of customization and options in them. Yes, genius, you guessed it right, these are Windows 7 desktop gadgets.
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