I shared an office with a guy whose desk was covered with stuff. He had a dummy hand grenade, three pictures of his wife, a deskset, and other stuff. My desk had my laptop and my daytimer. That was it.
It's much the same with my computer. My desktop is clear, waiting for me to work. If I want to know the local weather I'll look outside.
There is nothing on my desktop. After installing windows, UAC gets disabled, and then gadgets/sidebars whatever it is you call them.
My desktop has no icons. I know where everything is in my PC. I even disable the search feature.
Jimbo45,
I to like minimal items on my desktop. I have not seen any need for a Gadget.
What I don't like about the gadgets is that they were resized when I adjusted my Display settings.
They became too large and I was unable to make them smaller!
Try this and see can you fix them.
Gadgets - Restore Default Gadgets
Same!
I don't use any of them, just useless tools that you don't really need. CPU and memory-eaters too!
gadgets don't have to be crappy frivoless thins that tell you waht to eat in shanghi but the gadgets i use have become essential on my desk top
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