Google Desktop ( Update: Google Desktop has been discontinued) is another great tool to get some gadgets working on Windows XP. Like Windows 7 gadgets, you can move the widgets to anywhere on desktop, and keep them on top of other windows.Ĭheck out Yahoo! Widgets to get more exciting stuff. You can right click on each widget to control display or configure preferences, or manage them in the dock (which was showed at the right hand side of screenshot above). When you first launch the program, it will pop up several widgets to get you started, including the weather, digital clock, calendar, and much more. Though the stable version was released more than two years ago, the widgets still work. It can display widgets on the desktop, just like the Gadgets feature in Windows 7.
Yahoo! Widgets ( update: Yahoo Widgets has been discontinued) is a free application for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. We haven’t tried out yet but from what it looks like on its homepage it provides many gadget and widget options for XP users.
One of our readers suggested a third-party tool called Desktop Sidebar. UPDATE: Both the tools we talk about in this article – Yahoo Widgets and Google Desktop – are no longer available. This article talks about two tools that help you add a variety of desktop gadgets to Windows XP. But if you are still on XP (don’t worry, more than 50% of people who use personal computers prefer XP), and are wondering how to get these gadgets on your desktop, then read on. By default the gadgets appear on the sidebar, but they can be dragged to anywhere on the screen.īoth Vista and Windows 7 have several useful built-in gadgets like clocks, weather, RSS feed widget etc. If you are on Windows 10, don’t forget to check out our get desktop gadgets in Windows 10 article.Desktop gadgets in Windows was introduced by Vista, and it is there in Windows 7 as well. To install a gadget, download and then double-click on the gadget to see the gadget start working. At the same time, Microsoft has retired Windows Live Gallery page, the download source for all above-mentioned gadgets. In fact, it has dropped gadgets from Windows 8 operating system. UPDATE: It turns out that Microsoft no longer supports desktop gadgets. Minimize: Use this to quickly minimize and restore windows.
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