Installing a gadget

[Anak]

I just downloaded the SphereTimer_English.Gadget, but I do not know how to install it.

I keep seeing that it is usually added to a sidebar, but I would like it down along the system clock.

Is it do-able?

 

[whs]

If it is a gadget, I doubt you can put it into the system tray. Normally you install a gadget by double clicking on the .exe. But not all gadgets that work in a Vista sidebar will work on the win7 desktop.

 

[Anak]

One problem, its extension is .Gadget, and not .exe .
Even after I unzipped it, when I went to double click on it, I got the dreaded...

"Would you like Windows to search the web for a program that will open this file"?

 

[DocBrown]

Copy it into the gadgets folder this way.

Start :ar: shell:gadgets :ar: then click on it to open the folder, then to copy your gadget into it.

Then right click on your destop to open gadgets & see if it is there, so you can click on it to start it.

 

[A Guy]

If you are now just trying to install it? Rename the .gadget file to .zip.

Open the C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets

Create a new folder and name it the same as the gadget file:

SphereTimer_English.gadget

Extract the contents of the renamed zip file to this folder. Now go to your gadgets control panel and the SphereTimer should be there. A Guy

 

[Anak]

Copy it into the gadgets folder this way.

Start :ar: shell:gadgets :ar: then click on it to open the folder, then to copy your gadget into it.

Then right click on your destop to open gadgets & see if it is there, so you can click on it to start it.

DB, I have no shell:gadgets, when I search for just shell I got first pix.

Then I found Windows Powershell but when I went to drag the file to the x86 C prompt I got the second "red" pix....

For the Admin WPS I got the third "yellow" pix...

For one thing I'm thinking I have to re-enable "scripts"


EDIT:
will try A Guy's tip an get back....

 

[DocBrown]

Here is what mine looks like.

 

[Anak]

Okay I have the unzipped SphereTimer_English.gadget file in the

C:\Users\Amln0\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\SphereTimer_English.gadget Folder.

But I'll be darned if I can find the gadgets control panel

 

[DocBrown]

I wonder if they got turned off ?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8114-gadgets-turn-off.html

 

[A Guy]

No gadgets choice on right click on desktop context menu?



A Guy

 

[DocBrown]

SphereTimer_Gadget installed for me

 

[Anak]

Nope! I'll try DB's Gadget link.......

 

[DocBrown]

FRom your screen snip above, It looks like gadgets are turned off. Follow instructions to turn ON & then reboot computer.

 

[Anak]

I got it working Doc. But, this is goin to take some splainin' to do.

I placed the un-zipped (ST) SphereTimer file into this folder:
C:\Users\Amln0\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\SphereTimer_English.Gadget

It was in this Folder that I changed the extension from .gadget to .exe
It asked if I really wanted to do this and I said yes.
The file then changed into an application.

Then had to go and turn Gadgets features on in:
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features
Re-booted, but still didn't have ST showing in Gadgets cpl.

So I checked C:\Users\Amln0\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\SphereTimer_English.Gadget again and the app file expanded to a dozen files, re-booted again still no gadget.

I then thought what if I place the original SphereTimer _ English.Gadget file into C:\Users\Amln0\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\SphereTimer_English.Gadget

So I went to where I downloaded and un-zipped it originally:
C:\Users\Amln0\Desktop\Web Downloads\SphereTimer_English

Here's the weird part....As soon as I clicked on the file to drag it over to the sidebar\gadgets\folder a dialogue box pops up and tells me that this file needs to be installed, but it will overwrite the one that is already there, "are you sure you want to do this"?

So I said yes, when it was finished it re-booted itself and the ST gadget popped up onto the desktop, and it was listed in the gadget cpl.
I rechecked the sidebar\gadgets\folder and nothing changed there, but the file that I wanted to click an drag changed from
SphereTimer_English an app file to SphereTimer_English a Windows Gadget file with the little clock to the first pix.
The next pix is showing it on the desktop.

Hopefully everything is stable, and will run okay. I would like to thank you Doc Brown, and A GUY for helping me figure this out, and offering suggestions along the way.

Thanks Men....Anak

 

[A Guy]

I believe this would have been much simpler had you known the gadgets sidebar wasn't running. Once you had it running, the normal gadget installer worked. Good you got it working. A Guy

 

[Anak]

I agree with you 100% Wanted to rep you but I have to wait.

 

[A Guy]

No worries, rep Doc instead

A Guy

 

[Anak]

That's just what I did.

 

[DocBrown]

Glad we got it sorted out for you & Thanks

 

[Anak]

A big your welcome for both of you!