Like Windows 7 gadgets, you can move the widgets to anywhere on desktop, and keep them on top of other windows.Ĭheck out Yahoo! Widgets to get more exciting stuff. You can right click on each widget to control display or configure preferences, or manage them in the dock (which was showed at the right hand side of screenshot above). When you first launch the program, it will pop up several widgets to get you started, including the weather, digital clock, calendar, and much more. Though the stable version was released more than two years ago, the widgets still work. It can display widgets on the desktop, just like the Gadgets feature in Windows 7. Yahoo! Widgets ( update: Yahoo Widgets has been discontinued) is a free application for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. We haven’t tried out yet but from what it looks like on its homepage it provides many gadget and widget options for XP users. One of our readers suggested a third-party tool called Desktop Sidebar. UPDATE: Both the tools we talk about in this article – Yahoo Widgets and Google Desktop – are no longer available. This article talks about two tools that help you add a variety of desktop gadgets to Windows XP. But if you are still on XP (don’t worry, more than 50% of people who use personal computers prefer XP), and are wondering how to get these gadgets on your desktop, then read on. By default the gadgets appear on the sidebar, but they can be dragged to anywhere on the screen.īoth Vista and Windows 7 have several useful built-in gadgets like clocks, weather, RSS feed widget etc.
Reboot and you should be seeing the gadgets once again.Desktop gadgets in Windows was introduced by Vista, and it is there in Windows 7 as well. Now copy your edited gadget.xml file to C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\\gadget.xml (example syntax: Copy c:\temp\gadget.xml “C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\Clock.Gadget\en-US\gadget.xml”)Ĩ. Choose ‘Command Prompt’ from the bottom of the list of recovery options.ħ. Reboot and strike the F8 key during reboot to get to the Safe Mode screen.ĥ. (autoscaleDPI)(!-_locComment_text="”–)true(/autoscaleDPI)ĭo not leave an empty row in the script, just delete the whole row that has that tag.ģ. Find & entirely delete the row containing the tag:.Copy the original gadget.xml file to a temporary folder of your choice. No need to kill the whole sidebar process. Close the gadget you want to modify from the sidebar.Ghacks reader DrDivan55 found a way to resolve the issue for individual gadgets without having to modify the system's DPI setting in the process. The core reason for them not being displayed properly on the system appears to be DPI locking. It seems possible to modify individual gadgets instead to make them compatible.
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