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Restore previous Desktop Gadget and maintaining the gadget positions (build 7000)

Submitted by Zerlot on December 15, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

User must close all gadget that are display in desktop in order to turn off desktop gadget (sidebar.exe). When User want to use gadgets they have to start from scratch. no way to restore previous gadget

a feature that would restore previous gadget and maintain the positions. Ability to close all gadgets.

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Discussion (3 comments)

Zerlot wrote on December 15, 2008, 11:36pm

Changed problem description.

larsendaniel wrote on December 16, 2008, 1:21am

awesome usability post.

billerr wrote on December 16, 2008, 2:24am

yeah. just like the Sidebar tray icon in Vista, which you could exit and open again and it would maintain all the Gadget settings.

Zerlot wrote on December 24, 2008, 1:21am

Changed solution description.

Zerlot wrote on January 11, 2009, 12:36am

Changed title from [Restore previous Desktop Gadget and maintaining the gadget positions] to [Restore previous Desktop Gadget and maintaining the gadget positions (build 7000)].

Thunderbuck wrote on February 3, 2009, 6:41am

Yeah, I'll agree, there should be an interface for this. It could probably be a toggle fly-out menu item from the desktop context menu (ie, do you want to add a gadget? Or turn them off?).

That said, I'm really pleased with how well the gadgets perform on Win7. They were a real resource-suck on Vista.

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