Windows 7 Taskforce

fiji wrote on January 22, 2009, 1:26am

-1. What's wrong with them.

.Chris wrote on January 22, 2009, 2:08am

they already got an update choice of size.... what more could they do to them?

+1 anyway/

Zerlot wrote on January 22, 2009, 4:11am

Nothing is wrong with the default Vista gadgets but of course i would like to see new stuff in Windows 7 default gadgets.

Feed headlines you can't change the text color and background color. The size of text is small. You can't update the content of feeds manually and it doesn't show information when the feed got updated

Could we add more information in weather gadgets.

the calendar need to change make it bigger and add events.

CPU meter maybe add 2 additional look.

Clock maybe they could add a digital clock.

tino wrote on January 22, 2009, 4:21am

Definitaly. They should redesign all gadgets with Silverlight and nice animations. The technology is there and it shouldn't be so difficult to do.

And I do not see the benefit of the new Sticky Notes app separated from the gadgets. They could have implemented every feature with gadgets.

I would go so far to say that Windows 7 gadgets should be Silverlight-only. MS could release a free Expression Blend Light version for creating gadgets and pushing this technology.

thommck wrote on January 22, 2009, 12:02pm

+1
The calendar gadget is definately too small.
Maybe they should create some official Windows Live Gadgets that can show tasks/calendar/events etc.

Also, I am very sad the Bubble Wrap gadget no longer works :-(

fiji wrote on January 22, 2009, 9:03pm

+1. Changed my vote. Those are some good ideas!

reghakr wrote on January 23, 2009, 2:12am

Am I missing something here?

When I right-click on the desktop and choose gadgets, I get nothing.

Do you have to install any additional software?

tino wrote on January 24, 2009, 2:26am

@reghakr: No. Does sidebar.exe show up in your task manager?

reghakr wrote on January 24, 2009, 3:50am

No, it doesn't show up in taskmanager, but when I originally installed Windows 7, it was in msconfig with the box checked.

So how are you getting the gadgets to work?

When I go to C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar, and double-click on sidebar.exe it does nothing.

reghakr wrote on January 24, 2009, 2:09pm

OK, I got it. Apparently doesn't work if you completely turn off UAC.

There is a workaround though. Go to Start > Run and type regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Sidebar\Settings and create a new DWORD value, name it AllowElevatedProcess and give it a value of 1

7hir7een wrote on March 14, 2009, 10:37pm

+1 The font on all of my gadgets is far too small, even if I update the DPI on my computer.