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  1. New Gadgets 2017
  2. Best 2017 Tech Gadgets
  3. Best Laptops For 2017 Reviews
  4. Best Gadgets For Your Car

The iPad Pro is amazing and, in many ways, can take the place of your laptop (and even your iPhone, in most ways). But I love my non-clip-on keyboard. And I’m not the creative type, always editing on Photoshop. You have your laptop and all your other supplies for school--but don’t forget all the accessories you’ll need to make working and playing on your laptop more comfortable and productive. Windows 7 gadgets can be a lot more than a pretty interface for your clock or news feed. Several Windows 7 gadgets exist solely as monitoring tools that show constantly updated data about your system resources like CPU, memory, hard drive, and network usage.

Advertisement Desktop gadgets were useful widgets that could be added to the Windows Vista and Windows 7 desktop to improve productivity. They’re long gone, but don’t worry—you can add desktop widgets to Windows 10 using these third-party tools. Hold On, What Are Windows Gadgets? It might seem difficult to appreciate ten years later, but desktop gadgets were popular at the time. Capable of displaying the time, weather, sticky notes, and even CPU speed, these widgets were essentially mini apps that could be positioned around the desktop (mostly down the right-hand side, however). They would also hide behind your main apps, acting as if part of the desktop background.

Pretty useful, right? Unfortunately, with the arrival of Windows 8, these widgets were abandoned. Suddenly, you couldn’t instantly see what time it was in your Hong Kong office, or get RSS feeds on the desktop. Instead, this sort of information was combined into live tiles on Windows 8, and to a lesser extent, Windows 10. Fortunately, with the return to a dominant desktop on Windows 10 (as opposed to the Start Screen-first approach of Windows 8), gadgets and similar tools can be restored. Security Vulnerabilities Killed Windows Gadgets A key reason why Microsoft opted to drop Gadgets from later versions of Windows was security related. In 2012, Microsoft announced that could allow the running of Remote Code Execution, in which a remote attacker can gain access to your PC.

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They noted that: • “Some legitimate Gadgets could contain vulnerabilities” • You could be tricked into installing a “malicious Gadget.” Using both of these attacks, the hacker could run code under your account profile (potentially opening backdoors for other malware) or even hijack your entire PC. To disable the Windows Sidebar and the Gadgets in Windows Vista and Windows 7. A few weeks later, Windows 8 was released, and the Gadgets were no more.

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There’s no reason to let hackers limit your productivity, however. It’s time to bring some new widgets onto your Windows 10 desktop. Get New Gadgets in Windows 10 With Widgets HD Available from the Microsoft Store, Widgets HD lets you put widgets on the Windows 10 desktop. Simply install the app, run it, and click the widget that you want to see. Once loaded, widgets can be repositioned on the Windows 10 desktop, and the main app “closed” (although it remains in your system tray).

As with the Windows Vista widgets, hovering your mouse over the widgets reveals an X button to close it. You may even see a Settings cog, for making customizations.

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For instance, the weather and clock widgets let you select your location; the weather widget also lets you choose Fahrenheit or Celcius. While free, the app offers in-app purchases of additional widget types. These include a news feed, picture gallery, internet speed test, and more.

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(Note that earlier versions of the app didn’t allow individual widgets to be placed on the desktop, accounting for some poor review scores.) Download: (Free, with in-app purchases). Windows Desktop Gadgets Probably my favorite solution, if only because it is so straightforward and light on resources, is Windows Desktop Gadgets. This solution is designed to work with multiple languages, which can be added in the installation wizard. The DesktopgadgetsRevived-2.0.exe must be extracted from the downloaded ZIP file before running, and once installed, traditional Windows Vista/7 style gadgets can be accessed by right-clicking your desktop and selecting Gadgets. You’ll see that gadgets have been added to Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization (see our The Windows control panel is on its way out. Its replacement, the Settings app, has received a significant upgrade in Windows 10.