Windows 7 Gadgets

Gadgets are mini-applications (applets) for the Windows 7 desktop that give you access to frequently changing information, such as the current time, weather, stock quotes, news feeds, computer usage, and the like. (See “Adding new gadgets to your desktop” later in this part.)
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  ✓  Clock, which shows an analog clock with the current time for any time zone you select.
  ✓  Slide Show, which displays a continuous slide show of the images that are stored in your Pictures library.
  ✓  Calendar, which shows the current day and date.
  ✓  Weather, which shows the current temperature (and when enlarged, weather conditions) for a selected town or city.
  ✓  Feed Headlines, which shows you news headlines for the RSS feed you select. (See “Internet Explorer 8” in Part 4 for details on RSS feeds and how to subscribe to them.)

Adding new gadgets to your desktop
You can easily add gadgets to your Windows desktop. Not only can you select new gadgets from among those that are automatically shipped with the Windows 7 operating system, but you can always download gadgets from an ever-expanding online library. When you add new gadgets, Windows automatically displays them sequentially down a single column on the far right of your desktop (although, you can then move them anywhere you want on the desktop — see “Resizing gadgets and repositioning them on the desktop” later in this part). [Paid Recommendations^^: Using Mac image recovery to recover your lost photos.]
To add gadgets to the desktop from among those that are included with
Windows 7, follow these few steps:
    1.  Right-click the desktop and then choose Gadgets from the shortcut menu.
         Windows 7 opens the Gadget Gallery window that displays all the gadgets on your computer.

    2.  Double-click the icon of the gadget you want to add to the desktop or right-click it and then click the Add option on the shortcut menu.
         Windows adds the gadget to the right side of the Windows desktop.
    3.  When you finish adding gadgets, click the Close button in the Gadget Gallery window.

To download more gadgets from the Internet, open the Gadgets Gallery window as described in Step 1 and then click the Get More Gadgets Online link. Windows 7 then opens the Personalize Your PC Web page in the Internet Explorer. This page offers not only gadget news and instructions on how to download new gadgets, but also information on how to build your own gadgets, if you’re so inclined.
  

To remove a gadget from the desktop, position the mouse pointer in the upperright corner of the gadget you want to remove and then click the X that appears. Note that removing a gadget from the desktop doesn’t delete it from your computer — to do that, you need to open the Gadgets Gallery window, right-click the gadget’s thumbnail, and then choose Uninstall from its shortcut menu. To restore a gadget that you’ve removed from the desktop, just repeat the preceding steps for adding a new gadget.

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