MS Drops Gadget Support

scr said:
sygnus21 said:
That's why any essential backups I do always includes Documents/My Documents :D

You never know ;)
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Oh... I know, believe me I know. No need to ask how I know
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Well I'll tell my story... the quick and simple

I've always had multiple drives in my system so one day I'm going to format a newly installed drive.... I instead wound-up wiping the primary hard drive..... and everything on it :eek:

They only thing that made life bearable was that I had older copies of data scattered throughout CD's and hard drives. Still lost a lot of data though. After that.... I learned the valuable lession of doing backups on an regular basis, and backing up anytime I do major maintenance :o

So yeah, always backup that data you need/want ;)

Anyway this thread is about the demise of gadgets so we'll keep it there :D
 

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Good bye, little friends... :cry:
 

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I've never liked it either and was one of the first things that I disabled.
 

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My fault

scr said:
sygnus21 said:
That's why any essential backups I do always includes Documents/My Documents :D

You never know ;)
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Oh... I know, believe me I know. No need to ask how I know
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The irony is I did have OS backups covering that period, but because I didn't check every directory and I was running out of space I deleted them. :cry:
I generally only keep a 2 or 3 months worth of OS backups.

My personal files are on a separate partition and I have monthly backups dating back to April 2009 (when I first started playing with the W7 betas).


I don't use the standard W7 gadgets anyway (and I haven't rebuilt my Rainmeter display).

AVG always tries to install some useless gadget when I do a clean install.
It already installs a desktop icon (without my permission) and I have "Start Menu" shortcut and "Sys Tray" icons.
 
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I see that a small number of gadget developers moved to CodePlex, as Microsoft itself advises people to do.

Notably, e.g. the Hermes RSS gadget.

It's a pretty decent gadget hosting platform, maybe even better than the live gallery - if only more people knew about it! And it is offered by Microsoft free of charge.

...

By the way, I asked this question in another thread, but no one noticed, so I'll ask it again here - could anyone confirm that Microsoft has unbroken the Calendar gadget with one of the recent IE9 updates? Has anyone else had a broken Calendar, like me, which is now fixed permanently and reliably works as expected?
 

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Teerex said:
By the way, I asked this question in another thread, but no one noticed, so I'll ask it again here - could anyone confirm that Microsoft has unbroken the Calendar gadget with one of the recent IE9 updates? Has anyone else had a broken Calendar, like me, which is now fixed permanently and reliably works as expected?
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So that you know your question was seen.... I don't use the calender gadget so I can't say.

Anyway the only gadget I liked was the Notes gadget from Vista. I actually had it working on 7 but since resintalling my OS last year I've yet to set it up again. I did post a how to somewhere here awhile back but I'll have to find it to see what I did to get it working again.

Yes! Here it is....... http://www.sevenforums.com/gadgets/87494-gadget-notes-win-7-a.html
 

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I use gadgets every once and while But only like two at most usually.
 

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I used Gadgets here and there but I prefer Rainmeter these days. :)
 

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I don't understand people's attitude: desktop gadgets are useful. I use the weather, clock, multiple RSS feeds, Top 5 memory processes, Top 5 CPU processes, Google calender, Earth phase, moon phase, translation lookup, Wolfram Alpha lookup, multiple radio streams, etc., etc. All information easily accessible with Windows Key + G

Probably Microsoft wanted to reduce the expense involved in reviewing submissions to its Windows Gadgets web site, and perhaps they no longer fit in with its plans for Windows 8.
 

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Metro Tiles

insertrealname said:
Probably Microsoft wanted to reduce the expense involved in reviewing submissions to its Windows Gadgets web site, and perhaps they no longer fit in with its plans for Windows 8.
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I think that the awful Metro Tiles are supposed to replace the gadgets.
 

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I must admit I haven't paid much attention to the news about Windows 8; the little I have read makes the UI sound like turning my computer into a giant touchscreen smartphone--eeek! I think i will be using Windows 7 for some time yet.
 

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They could at least have kept up support for W7 gadgets.
 

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I wonder who are the people that uses these gadgets, we are already stuck in so much work and needs to run a bundle of programs for office work alone, that we can't afford to have more gadgets of widgets or anything else like that.
 

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Rainmeter is pretty light, it never used 2mb of ram with 3 useful gadgets running
 

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I don't use Gadgets, if I do they would be on my iPhone (Weather, Stopwatch, etc.)
 

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