Search, Download and Install Windows Vista or XP Sidebar’s Microsoft Desktop Gadgets
Microsoft Gadgets or Desktop Gadgets are a minie widget applications that are designed to do variety of tasks or dedicated purpose, such as display clocks, show calendars, RSS notifiers, show at-a-glance view of online instant messaging contacts, provides easy way to control media player, games, calculators, sticky notes, search tools and more. Microsoft Gadgets can run on the Windows desktop and on the Windows Sidebar, which is the widget engine for Desktop Gadgets, and is a panel found in either the right side (default side) or the left side of the Windows desktop that organizes gadgets and makes them easy to access. Both features are integrated with the Windows Vista operating system and the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows and patches are available to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to use the Sidebar and Gadget features.
Windows Vista desktop with Windows Sidebar and some Sidebar gadgets.
When you purchase and install Windows Vista, it already comes with essential sets. However, if you want to search and find more Microsoft Gadgets available for download for free, Windows Live Gallery is the place you should go, where it’s the one-stop shop to find and search all of the available great useful Gadgets, add-ins, and extensions to customize and personalize Windows Live products and services as well as Windows Sidebar. Aslo on Windows Live Gallery are web gadgets that live on Live.com homepage or Windows Live Spaces blog. Windows Live Gallery is now also the only place for Gadget developers to submit, upload and post English language Gadgets or Macros for use in the US, UK, and Australia. Previously, the Gadgets for Windows Sidebar have been published and made available for download at Gadget Gallery, which still host Microsoft Gadgets for other countries and languages.
Among the Gadgets available are iTunes Songs, MSN Video, Live Clock, Get Windows Media Player, Outlook info, Weather Forecasts, GMT clock, Hangman, Google-bar, Windows Live Mail, Blockade Sidebar Gadget, Gmail Quick login, Poker, Stock Quotes, Shopping, LiveVideo YouTube, Phone Notify, Spikedhumor Daily, Sudoku Assistant, Postage Calculator (UK), Uptime Gadget and many more. Best of all, no costs involved, download Gadgets for free.
Gadgets Installation
After you download the Microsoft Gadgets .gadget file on to the computer, execute the installer and answer “Install” when prompted with a Windows Sidebar pop-up message to install the gadget. After installing the gadget file, click the plus sign at the top of the Windows Sidebar pane to make the new gadget available and shown on desktop.
Uninstall Microsoft Desktop Gadgets
Gadgets uninstallation is easy. Simply right-click on any gadget that you want to uninstall and select uninstall.
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October 5th, 2006 00:45
[...] Google has released Google Universal Gadgets, which also known as Google Modules, Google Widgets or Homepage Contents to the general public for use on personal websites and blogs. Google Gadgets are mini applications, sometimes called applets or widgets that perform specific tasks or provide information or as a games. Previously, most of the applets have been restricted for usage on the desktop (Desktop Gadget), Google Desktop, Google Pages, and Google Personalized Homepage (Universal Gadget). Elsewhere at Yahoo! and Microsoft, the gadgets or widgets are also only available for desktop or specific Yahoo! or Microsoft related customized pages. Google now has a gallery of more than 1220 Google Universal Gadgets, which contains minimal code that function as dynamic applications when installed on a website or blog, with a variety of abilities. Among the functionalities of the gadgets include check weather, get news headlines, play games, miniature look-up for Google Maps or Google Calendar, search tool for Wikipedia or Dictionary.com, download smileys, translate with Babelfish and etc. [...]
December 4th, 2006 21:19
How can you instal Vista’s sidebar in xp?
December 4th, 2006 21:48
k found 2 links to help after inense searching:
http://mstn.homedns.org/mstn/asp/news/news_detail.asp?id=3520
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1020/install_vista_longhorn_sidebar_into_xp
December 5th, 2006 00:48
[...] Fancy having a Windows Sidebar on your Windows XP desktop to display and run popular gadgets such as Live Clock, iTunes Songs, Outlook Info, MSN Video, Remote Desktop Gadget, Google-bar, Weather Forecasts, Calculator, Hangman and KEXP Now Playing, just like in Windows Vista? Windows Sidebar provides instant access to gadgets, mini-applications that deliver games, live webcams, traffic maps, weather information, RSS feeds and other interactive, and customizable utilities that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools, in a similar way to Apple’s Dashboard Widgets and Yahoo Widgets. Windows Sidebar is available only for Windows Vista, however, for Windows XP users, a ported version of XP side bar is available for free download. MSTN has packaged all files and executables needed to install and run Windows Vista Sidebar in Windows XP properly into one setup file WindowsSidebarInstall.exe (alternative download location). Download and install WindowsSidebarInstall.exe. The installer will automatically create a sub folder Sidebar (can also be installed in “Windows Sidebar” folder) in the Program Files folder, and then copy all the necessary files, DLLs and executables (e.g. Sidebar.exe, xmlrw.dll and emu.dll) to the Program FilesSidebar (or Program FilesWindows Sidebar folder if you choose so when prompted by setup) directory, with two more child folder “Default Parts” and “en-US”. Beside, the setup will also create a folder named “Parts” in the currently logged on user home directory (assuming you logon as Administrator, the Parts folder will be located in C:Documents and SettingsAdministrator directory), with all the default gadgets (parts). This is the folder where all gadgets should be installed. [...]
December 7th, 2006 20:40
[...] Fancy having a Windows Sidebar on your Windows XP desktop to display and run popular gadgets such as Live Clock, iTunes Songs, Outlook Info, MSN Video, Remote Desktop Gadget, Google-bar, Weather Forecasts, Calculator, Hangman and KEXP Now Playing, just like in Windows Vista? Windows Sidebar provides instant access to gadgets, mini-applications that deliver games, live webcams, traffic maps, weather information, RSS feeds and other interactive, and customizable utilities that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools, in a similar way to Apple’s Dashboard Widgets and Yahoo Widgets. Windows Sidebar is available only for Windows Vista, however, for Windows XP users, a ported version of XP side bar is available for free download. MSTN has packaged all files and executables needed to install and run Windows Vista Sidebar in Windows XP properly into one setup file WindowsSidebarInstall.exe (alternative download location). Download and install WindowsSidebarInstall.exe. The installer will automatically create a sub folder Sidebar (can also be installed in “Windows Sidebar” folder) in the Program Files folder, and then copy all the necessary files, DLLs and executables (e.g. Sidebar.exe, xmlrw.dll and emu.dll) to the Program FilesSidebar (or Program FilesWindows Sidebar folder if you choose so when prompted by setup) directory, with two more child folder “Default Parts” and “en-US”. Beside, the setup will also create a folder named “Parts” in the currently logged on user home directory (assuming you logon as Administrator, the Parts folder will be located in C:Documents and SettingsAdministrator directory or accessible via %userprofile%Parts command), with all the default gadgets (parts). This is the folder where all gadgets should be installed. [...]
January 13th, 2007 20:38
i need windows wista
February 17th, 2007 17:21
i need windows wista for my pc
March 29th, 2007 19:07
Windows Vista sucks ass don’t get it. Seriously it bugs with other programs and it’s not compatible with games and such…
June 15th, 2007 20:52
Dont put the Window wista yet because lota trouble. Better the window xp.
April 28th, 2008 07:06
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