I found this out the hard way about a week ago. I barely use gadgets, but I found out that performance data gadgets are very useful (Intel TB gadget, Processor usage, weather). When I had an idea of a cool gadget to add, I searched WinLive then BAM. only 20 gadgets. WTF. So yeah, RIP gadget. You were barely used, but you were very useful when you are

Gadgets...gone....well it was one of the very first things that I disabled.

If you are having withdrawal pains, There is always Yahoo Widgets.

I tried a few gadgets back when Ben Franklin was in dippers and found nothing but trouble and haven't used them seance.

Haven't used gadgets since rainmeter came along

Danny

Lol I'm like the opposite. I use System Monitors gadget which shows each core in my quad cores usage in percentage, RAM usage, and external and internal ip address. Then I use the built in weather gadget to check the weather. Also, I use the Vista Notes Gadget in 7, Calendar, and Currency Converter to convert between local and US currency.

Britton30 said:

Looking for gadgets?
The Windows Live Gallery has been retired. In order to focus support on the much richer set of opportunities available for the newest version of Windows,

Source

Gadgets available here.

Thanks for sharing! I only have a few, and I don't always use them.....thankfully, I already have the few I do use.