Do standalone gadgets work in Windows 8

[Guest001]

Has anyone tried to use gadgets in windows 8?

I heard the sidebar gadgets are not included and are disabled in Windows 8.

[Hellfighter]

yea but i don't think you had this inmind

it cost about F30.00
you basic plug into any windows 8 usb port
and watch it sleep all day long

[Guest001]

Silly, I wouldn't sleep if I was plugged into a USB port would you?

[Hellfighter]

but for real there some virus Trojan horse gadgets
eyecandie gadgets seem like really good, but what you don't see can get you into trouble, be-careful ok

some say gadgets bad to use! do to some jerks use it to hack codes other people system!

seem there even talk Microsoft going to remove of it use in their system win8

source: http://www.techspot.com/news/49351-m...p-gadgets.html

on the safe side i disable my win7 & windows xp (my mothers) system too

Originally Posted by stompem

Silly, I wouldn't sleep if I was plugged into a USB port would you?

i wouldn't get it in the first place, even if some one gave it to me it be trash can real fast

[Guest001]

No I am making my own SAFE gadjets but want to use them in Windows 8 to get away from it's controlling environment.
The windows 8 Metro is a big spyware and Adware program built in to your OS

[Hellfighter]

oh didn't know that, seem odd they came out with that "fix it" item from Microsoft
to disable sidebar and gadgets

for windows vista and 7

[Guest001]

Yes there are a lot of 3rd party malicious gadgets but the built in microsoft ones were safe except even they collected data.

[Guest001]

There is no reason to disable them all together but a good excuse to replace all that with metro.
I imagine that if a Metro item is a data streaming "content tile" and if the site it is connected to was down it would slow desktop start up or it would sit there continually trying to access the remote content.

Remember the active desktop problems of old?

[Guest001]

Ingenious device it is. (Metro) Imagine the advertising clout it will give them? (Microsoft)

Millions of users immediately and directly exposed.

[Hellfighter]

yea have to agreed with that

[dave61]

What types of Gadgets do you guys use?

I got a clock, a calendar, a GPU meter, a Weather bug and a CPU usage meter.

[Guest001]

Trying to make my own gadgets like this...



To get around issues like W7/W8 Administrator rights and UAC I'm hoping to use batch file (.bat) execution instead of "user-path" based executions which can be blocked.

So far in W7 the batch file scripts are working.

[Hellfighter]

say whats so great about windows 8?

what i read there no media player, one has to buy a special package deal to get it
and some other items left out of windows 8 as will

the interface is lack in what seem to lag in looks like box as will one click-on not fantasy looking


remind me of windows 95 some ways the interface

source; http://www.maas360.com/maasters/blog...le-on-desktop/

think windows 7 is the better deal, with the upgrades windows 7 has to boot even

[Guest001]

I'll wait for Windows 9

[Hellfighter]

i read some were windows 8 may have a dual theme desktop

like windows vista/ win7 desktop theme has, but one has to enable them in
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Personalization for windows 8

but the rest is left out save cost and something going on in Germany a firm over there has trouble with Microsoft what its trying to use with firm came out with item

not to clear item use smartphone area of app, to tire now going to bed soon i read more about it later today

[Guest001]

There is a way to disable metro and assemble a desktop by sneaky burrowing.
(this I have known for months)

There are 3rd party apps being developed to enhance it as we speak.

Stardock has one ($4.99) but I don't trust them, once long ago I had a suite of programs worth 60-70 dollars from them and then 12 months later they say pay again, pay every year, I say get lost for sure.

[Hellfighter]

yea i use to use Stardock as will
still get spam e-mail some time from them

tell you the truth i never care for it much for some reason

[dave61]

Still trying to figure out what other Gadgets are needed.

Most hard drive programs can be launched from desktop without sidebar.

It must be cool to be able to invent those items, but (in the end) isn't the basic program launch methods enough without all the other sidebar gadget clutter?

Just me, but I want the basic Feeds from my sidebar.

Everything I need is already on my desktop without having to search my hard drive.

[Guest001]

I don't use gadgets in windows 7
I am only trying this for future Windows versions that will try to Bingo, Metro, Cosmo,
me with whatever...

[Guest001]

I have batch files for executing programs by subject.

IE... click on desktop link called "My Office" and Word, Calc, Google maps address book banking safezone and Thunderbird eMail opens

"Editing-DFX2" and DFX2 Med, Auto MIS file backup, pff editor etc open all at once.
stuff like that