Microsoft Urges Users to Shut Down Windows Gadgets or Risk Attack
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Rainmeter
Hum well now I have dropped my gadgets and I hate getting rid of the weather and my Kaspersky one - I tried that Rainmeter and well id that isn't the most confusing app I've tried I'll eat my socks.
Yet people love it - ok it has some nice "skins" but hells bells trying to work out how just to get the weather up takes a Phd in physics for heavens sakes!
I accidentally deleted my Rainmeter setup, when I swapped from the W7 betas to the real thing. 
I was able to create my own CPU, RAM and Network meters, but I didn't manage to get the weather to work (I didn't spend much time trying though).
Probably the best bet would be to download some skins, see if you can get the weather working in one of them and then copy the config file. :)
My old setup:
Last edited by lehnerus2000; 15 Jul 2012 at 09:40.
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Yeah ok mate I just don't like the idea of losing the pic of my grandson as my desktop wallpaper but I'll give it a go
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Honestly, all of the software on all of my computers has atleast 1 vulnerability. Every piece of software that has ever existed can be hacked in some way. I'm not going to shut off gadgets because of this little thing that won't ever affect me. I have up to date antivirus and I am careful with what I download, so Microsoft, I'm NOT turning off my gadgets no matter how much you want me to.
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Honestly, all of the software on all of my computers has atleast 1 vulnerability. Every piece of software that has ever existed can be hacked in some way. I'm not going to shut off gadgets because of this little thing that won't ever affect me. I have up to date antivirus and I am careful with what I download, so Microsoft, I'm NOT turning off my gadgets no matter how much you want me to.
Hum windude I am sort of with you as I just cannot fathom out this Raimmeter stuff and the gadgets were so simple - I might just put them back.
As you say so rightly everything shows up some sort of vulnerability as my Kaspersky reports attest to, and who's to say the Raineter isn't vulnerable for that matter?
Plus I get to keeping my boy
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Win8 sucks
I like to use gadgets like cpu meter, gpu meter, and network meter. They are really good gadgets. I never download any others except those because those are the only gadgets I see useful.
Exactly and all those useful gadgets are from
trusted sources, believe it or not Microsoft we users aren't quite as stupid as you seem to think.
It's should be quite obvious to all of us that installing
ANYTHING from an
untrusted source is obviously not very smart. If the gadget function has vulnerabilities then they should be fixed by Microsoft rather than abandoning a very popular feature that millions are already using.
Msoft please stop trying to tell us what to do. We aren't dummies like you seem to think.
And if you even think of removing this feature from Windows 8 RTM I can guarantee you that I will
never purchase Windows 8, NOT EVER! And I will make sure that all of my clients and friends also won't.
I've had
Enough of this foolishness from Microsoft.
Windows 8 is horrible, i will not use or allow my family and most of my friends to use it. Sadly my mom wants the surface tablet because it does a bit more than most tablets, which is understandable. Windows 8 i tried and hated it, worst os ever
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Yeah ok mate I just don't like the idea of losing the pic of my grandson as my desktop wallpaper but I'll give it a go
Only the "dials" are part of Rainmeter in my picture.
The "dials" were my second attempt (the first one just used simple bars).
It shouldn't affect your wallpaper.
If you make your own layout, you can position the meters anywhere you like.
If you wanted to, you should be able to use your grandson's picture as part of your Rainmeter skin.
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Yeah ok mate I just don't like the idea of losing the pic of my grandson as my desktop wallpaper but I'll give it a go
Only the "dials" are part of Rainmeter in my picture.
The "dials" were my second attempt (the first one just used simple bars).
It shouldn't affect your wallpaper.
If you make your own layout, you can position the meters anywhere you like.
If you wanted to, you should be able to use your grandson's picture as part of your Rainmeter skin.
Ok lehnerus I'll give it another try then - perhaps I am doing something wrong setting it up.
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So what's next? Having Aero enabled allows attackers to compromise your system as well?
I've used gadgets for awhile and I ain't gonna stop. I'd use Rainmeter, but Rainmeter won't tell me the temperatures of my hardware.
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Ok lehnerus I'll give it another try then - perhaps I am doing something wrong setting it up.
The instructions aren't very clear.
Don't you hate tutorials that sound like marketing blurbs?
I managed to get a Weather skin working.
The key bits of info came from:
So what's next? Having Aero enabled allows attackers to compromise your system as well?
I've used gadgets for awhile and I ain't gonna stop. I'd use Rainmeter, but Rainmeter won't tell me the temperatures of my hardware.
It should work as it comes with CoreTemp.dll now (I had problems last time I tried it, in 2010).
I've just reinstalled Rainmeter and rebuilt my old skin, so I'll see if I can figure it out. :)
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It should be noted that Gadgets still works on Windows 8. While you may not find a way to open gadgets, opening a .gadget file will cause the said gadget to pin on your desktop.
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