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Personally, I don't miss gadgets since I did not use them. But a lot of people have been missing them. If you can't live without desktop gadgets, there is good news for you: desktop gadgets and sidebar are available for Windows 8. An independent developer "PainteR" has updated his unofficial installer which allows you to get gadgets back in Windows 8. Note that it supports all possible Windows 8 languages, so you will get gadgets and sidebar's interface with your native language!
Wait for the installer to finish and right click on the desktop after that. You will see the familiar "Gadgets" item in your desktop context menu. In action:. Winaero greatly relies on your support. You can help the site keep bringing you interesting and useful content and software by using these options:. Having a problem getting this to work.
No problems installing. When I right-click on the desktop, Gadgets option now appears. However, when I select Gadgets, my cursor hourglasses for about seconds and then nothing happens. Am I missing a step? In this case, the Gadgets were a functionality of Windows 7.
Taking the Gadgets from Windows 7 and using it on Windows 8, where Gadgets are not there at all, is not permitted in the License because they are being used on a non-Windows 7 machine. So this violates the license agreement, and might be a form of piracy. But, this may still be used if you live in a place where laws permit the duplication of the Gadgets, at which point, the law is taken instead of the license in this situation.
Tkachenko, please take this software down. Is this guy for real? So now you now! Get the hell outa here! You dont have to install anything, so dont be scared. So Ian, I take it you are a lawyer who has the right to interpret the laws and the contract s between Microsoft and me?
And as an attorney you, therefore, have the right to give us legal advice? I also take it, by your assertions, that you are also a law enforcement officer of some sort which gives you the right to enforce copyright, intellectual rights and other applicable laws?
This capacity also gives you the right to demand that this thread and software be removed? If you reside in the United States and are not a member of the Bar Association in any state, then you may be guilty of practicing law without a license.
Such a crime does carry penalties, however I can not advise you on your guilt or innocence nor the possible penalties you may suffer from if you commit such a crime. I have no idea what laws other countries may have regarding this activity. Just smile, and live as you wish to live and respect my right to do the same! Thank you for the advice, but I do not believe that a takedown is necessary.
I believe that Mr. Tkachenko is fully aware of his potential violations of the law, but that is his choice and one that we admire for it gives us the ability to have that which has been denied to us due to coprporate interest to do so. Now a days gadgets are so much popular. From this article I also know the usefulness of gadgets. Because I pass my every time in front of my desktop so those gadgets are very much useful for me.
Everyone knows this. And most of people like gadgets. I suspect that primary reason to remove desktop gadgets was tiles promotion. Thank you Sergey for your work! Unfortunately, today we justify our underhanded political and commercial tricks by security reasons and build it into the law. What a piece of rubbish! No tile nonsense can veer replace the perfectly lined-up special tools that I have on the right side of my desktop, and which I use all the time. And I am not taking a bout a stupid clock, wheather forecast or date in big letters.
We in the knowing have dedicated tools to display CPU load per core, CPU temperature, RAM usage, currently tranferred data on network and Wi-Fi, HDD surveillance and storage space meters, battery tool to also switch directly between different power states, and so on and so on. All this on a tiny amount of space, always accessible. Yes I read the TechNet security advisement. It seems very strange to me that MSoft cant make a secure gadget.
Makes no sense. I have used them for years on W7 and never had or heard of a problem. Gadgets are no more vulnerable than other software… you DO have to trust the source of your gadget software though, that they are reputable vendors and not malware distributors. Thanks a lot for this article. I use gadgets daily and keep myself updated daily. This Desktop Gadget for Windows 8. Well good news for Gadget fans. In fact even the URLs are similar, just replace gallery.
It stopped working after the last update to StartIsBack. Thx for your suggestions, but: 1. Only the Charms Bar came in front. Too complex, have to use shortkey. Grrr I hate Microsoft… 3. This is not so good, the gadgets are always on top. Aero Peek is off by default on Windows 8. That keeps gadgets showing on the Desktop. Just tried to get the Gadgets to work under 8. Please uninstall the Sidebar package already installed on your PC and then try again.
If you get this error , and cant see anything in program files even if hidden files are activated… Windows is playing tricks on you : its a protected system file. Mate, you already have some sidebar installed. Installer has found sidebar files and asking to remove them. Use Control panel — Uninstall a program to remove it. Let me show you a piece of code? There is no other option. Installation went perfectly, but when I double click to add the clock gadget nothing happens.
I double clicked the clock gadget in the window a couple of times and after that double clicked the CPU gauge, and it appeared very messed up, like a text in a grey rectangular box, and it appeared at the bottom, like the clock was there but not visible.
It uses IE as the engine for gadgets. IE11 replaces that engine and breaks gadgets. The strangest thing is that it breaks gadgets suddenly and not on every PC. I read that it breaks gadgets for DPI set above Thanks, man.
Very informative answer. Hi Sergey — Thanks for developing this!!! Some of them are already installed by my brother. Will be checking out the rest. If its a choice between 8. They mean that much to me. I just cant but the security alert, a remote attacker can gain full control over my pc, through windows gadgets??
How could MSoft not be able to patch that on W7. It must just be an excuse to discontinue, and force people to Metro. How did you get it to work with 8. It installed, opens fine, clocks works great but the weather does not : They say cannot connect to service. Hello, When I try to install on Windows 8. Installation canceled. None of the gadgets that come pre-installed on Win7 or those made by Microsoft for post-install download were actually threats.
The only threat of security breach from the gadgets was from 3rd party downloads. Because gadgets were HTML based, most required an internet connection to function properly, but if a hacker were to obtain access to the HTML file that the gadgets read from, they could potentially do some serious damage to your system because they would literally be able to execute any action possible through HTML coding.
Windows Firewall allows for a manual disconnection of any program from the internet. As a fail-safe, most gadgets download the most recent HTML file in case internet connectivity is lost, so they will still operate without an internet connection.
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