Windows Desktop Gadgets

Does anybody use gadgets? Sigh, so many useless gadgets...

Only 3 good ones I found are Windows Media Player, DAEMON Tools (which came with it) and an AppLauncher.

There is also a Twitter Gadget, but I don't have internet on that computer so I didn't get it... no Facebook gadget... that I found.

If only people would make useful gadgets.

 

i know, most of the gadgets just suck so badly....seems they used the same ones for Vista and 7.....

 

Which just sucks itself, because the feature of Desktop Gadgets is great. Just people make crappy gadgets.

 

I don't. It severely slows down the performance on my PC and freezes programs all the time.

 

Buy a new one with the graphics that make PS3 looks like N64.

 

Or you can just get a hardware upgrade.

And PS3 is slow as heck, btw.

 

yes i use one that shows how much all 4 processor cores are been used and how much ram.
I also use the weather gadget

 

These are the only 2 useful gadgets. Of course, feed gadgets are cool too...

Media Player (For those that use WMP)
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=7333ab20-11b8-4e85-afa9-f9360f38822b&bt=1&pl=1

App Launcher (This one is really good. Really.)
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=dabd90cc-d1c9-4425-9384-049ffbd5e43b

 

that app launcher is just like rocketdock

 

Same one I use, not sure how accurate it is but it give me a pretty good ideal especially when I maxed the processor out trying out Last Remnant a couple months ago. I just knew I had fried it.

 

Or you know, you could just use rainmeter.

 

When I used gadgets, the only one I really used was the system monitor, where it shows how much ram and cpu you are using... and then I figured I could just open up task manager when I wanted to know how much I was using, and got rid of the sidebar