Windows 7 and Vista also have this feature of desktop gadgets that can really surprise you as useful and advantageous. Many criticize gadgets because they want a clean desktop and because they can occupy a fair amount of memory, but today, on modern and powerful computers and monitors increasingly similar to televisions, this type of objection falls easily into the void. For this, we see here a second episode of Gadgets for Windows 7 and Vista, after explaining what they are and after seeing a generic list of the best gadgets to install on the desktop .
The gadgets add functionality that can be used directly from the desktop which can therefore be accessed very quickly.
Fortunately, Microsoft got rid of the ugly Vista sidebar and in Windows 7 gadgets can be moved wherever you want.
These are the 15 gadgets, in my opinion, among the most useful to see the weather forecast, to listen to music, for file management and for quick access to other basic Windows 7 functions.
Important : Microsoft has stopped supporting gadgets so the links are hosted by external sites.
1) Clipboard Manager allows you to quickly access Windows clipboard history. Notes are the place where text and files are stored when "copying" is done, usually followed by a "paste". With this gadget you have easy access to the copied data so that you can manage and recall them whenever you want, which would otherwise be impossible. So if you need text copied an hour ago, you can find it on the clipboard from the gadget on the desktop.
2) Ultimate Explorer has a myriad of features including Google search, the Youtube player and much more that can be enabled from the options menu. Unfortunately, it is not possible to customize the list of sites for research.
3) App Launcher is a very useful gadget that allows you to create a box that acts as a launch panel for your favorite programs .
4) Weather gadget is a collection to choose from to have the weather forecast on your desktop with a radar image, more detailed weather conditions and webcams.
5) MSN Weather is a real-time radar for watching weather conditions.
6) Simple Little Audio Gadget allows you to start music playback using Windows Media Player. You can open the playlists stored by the Media player, you can browse your music library, and it also has a full screen mode.
7) As a media player to listen to music without opening other programs, directly from the desktop, you can also download Imp Player or wmp 12 gadgets that use Windows Media Player 12 much better than the original gadget that was on the Microsoft site.
8) Alternatively there is also the excellent Winamp gadget.
10) Color Picker is a tool for those who work on the computer as a graphic designer and designer and allows you to select colors with Hex codes and save customized palettes.
11) Magic Folder is used to have fast access to the most used folders. It is particularly useful for managing files downloaded from the Internet and ordering them in folders according to their extension or format. For best results, you must first set it in the options and add the type of folders and, subsequently, the types of files that you want to manage automatically.
12) Language Translator is the language translator.
13) My Facebook allows you to take a quick look at the updates of the social network and to publish your own intervention on the fly. This means that you don't have to keep your browser open to see what is being written on Facebook.
Finally, I remember that gadgets in Windows 7 can be managed by right-clicking on the desktop and entering the panel dedicated to them.
