Windows 7: MS Drops Gadget Support

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

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

So yeah, always backup that data you need/want

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

Good bye, little friends...

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

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.
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 Windows 7 betas).


I don't use the standard Windows 7 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.

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.

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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?

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....... Gadget Notes & Win 7

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

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

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.

I think that the awful Metro Tiles are supposed to replace the gadgets.