10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

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• What a crappy article!

  Just 1 of all those you shoed up there is useful: the weather one.
  The CPU meter is ugly! Check out "All CPU Meter" and others... are amazing.
  
  Good luck in your research

  

  nanomartin

  5 August, 2010 09:02

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  • RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

    @nanomartin your Mr. Sunshine today I see.

    

    ItsTheBottomLine

    5 August, 2010 09:19

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      @ItsTheBottomLine
      He's right. That and the currency converter. The rest is junk.

      

      LTV10

      5 August, 2010 18:00

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      @ItsTheBottomLine He's right. Worse still, a good chunk of those come with Windows, so you don't need to get them, you have them...and almost everyone that reads ZDNET already knows that.<br><br>Wunderground and proweather are both better than the weather bug that comes with windows (not that the windows version is bad). Addgadget's CPU Usage and network meter are better essential tools. I'd never use the one built into windows...it's fugly and provides less useful information.

      

      notsofast

      6 August, 2010 19:46

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  • RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

    @nanomartin I agree. I don't understand the title of the article. Most the the gadgets he talks about have been around since day one It seems what this slide show is saying is "after 3 years there are still very few good windows gadgets" zdnet has a lot of lame articles. Some good but I almost find it 50/50.

    

    bellum80

    5 August, 2010 09:42

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  • RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

    @nanomartin How about a spell checker gadget smiley!

    

    bmacshara@...

    5 August, 2010 10:43

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      @bmacshara@... Go check your brains.

      

      m3kw9

      6 August, 2010 09:10

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    @nanomartin
    
    Agreed.
    That article has more crap than the Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment plant

    

    aquinas2221

    5 August, 2010 11:25

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    • RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

      @MSFTWorshipper as opposed to a wintard?

      

      LTV10

      5 August, 2010 18:03

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  • Yes, it is crappy.

    Agreed. None of them are particularly useful.

    

    laman

    5 August, 2010 18:51

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  • RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

    look look HTTP://www.bizboysell.com

    

    itkonlyyou217

    5 August, 2010 20:54

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  • RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

    @nanomartin I can only agree!

    

    Aphataeros

    6 August, 2010 08:00

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    @nanomartin
    Each of us has our own preferences. I love the CPU meter and couldn't care less about how it looks. My laptop has no hard-drive light, and this gadget tells me when bootup is finished. Further, it tells me when there is an inordinate amount of CPU activity, such as when I found that an update routine was running constantly and hogging resources (unltimately identified in the Resource Monitor). Of course, I can always leave the Task Manager running, but the CPU meter is more compact and convenient.

    

    jb_lantz@...

    6 August, 2010 11:25

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      @jb_lantz@...
      In other words, you need a gadget that shows your CPU utilization because your laptop is impractically slow until it's done with the boot-up routine. I find it sad we have to use a gadget to contend with two interface design issues (boot-up unacceptably slow and poor feedback from the laptop.

      

      Ben1265

      6 August, 2010 11:56

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• RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

  These are not must haves, these are more like if you install them, you will waste more time. A useful must have for most people would be one showing top 5 process using the CPU and memory. This tells you which process is taking up your resources, or crashing. Like iStat for Mac. How is a slide show gadget a must have? A must have for the slide show enthusiast?

  

  m3kw9

  5 August, 2010 09:38

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    @m3kw9 I really miss my mac. I recently started using the CPU one, but eh... I can do with out it. ctrl+alt+delete for the task manager works just as well. The rest is crap cuz I've tried them all. Since when are 'easy to get to' crap games must haves? The slideshow is beyond destracting. Gadgets make me miss using a mac.

    

    Winterborne6

    6 August, 2010 10:27

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• RE: 10 plus must have Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets

  Not a single thing in that list I would use. If you want to know what is going on with your machine put up a shortcut to Resource Monitor. You don't need a currency converter anymore, just type convert 1500 us dollars to italian lire and you get the answer, etc.

  

  mswift@...

  5 August, 2010 10:00

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    @mswift@... What are you talking about? Googling that brings up the need to click on some strange site. Why not use the trusted widget instead?

    

    MSFTWorshipper

    5 August, 2010 13:26

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      @MSFTWorshipper I would rather type it in to the Wolphram Alpha computational knowledge engine and get an instant result...well, as instant as my Internet connection will allow.

      

      edsager@...

      6 August, 2010 10:28

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• A puzzle...

  ...? What freaking grade do they think people are in? "Puzzles - If there is on thing proven over and over again it is that people love puzzles. Can you reconstruct the photo by sliding the blocks around?" OH MY WORD do they have to be condescending too?

  

  zach.winchester

  5 August, 2010 10:04

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