• Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. Desktop Gadgets have been replaced...
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  • Google Desktop is the Sidebar, which holds several common Gadgets and resides off to one side of the desktop. The Sidebar is available on the Windows and...
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  • in Windows XP but was replaced by a feature named Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista. Sidebar in turn was called Windows Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7, which...
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  • types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this is currently not the case. The gadgets and the Windows desktop Sidebar...
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  • The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop, the...
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  • platform has been renamed as Windows Desktop Gadgets. Gadgets are more closely integrated with Windows Explorer, but the gadgets themselves continue to operate...
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  • DesktopX 3.5 released - full Windows Vista support with the ability to export to Windows Desktop Gadgets DesktopX official website History of DesktopX...
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  • Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was made...
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  • Windows Live Gallery (codenamed Customise) was a part of Windows Live range of services. It was a center for gadgets, extensions and add-ons for Windows...
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  • of graphical user interface element Windows Sidebar, in Windows Vista (rename Windows Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7) Bing Sidebar, a section of the search...
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    Win+G selects next Windows Sidebar gadget item, bringing all gadgets to the foreground in process. Gadgets were removed in Windows 8. It shows up the...
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  • Google Desktop running Google Gadgets - No longer supported, discontinued, some security issues re: data sharing. Yahoo! Widgets for Windows XP, Windows Vista...
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    various image formats. Proprietary formats include Google Desktop, Google Gadgets, Microsoft Gadgets, the AmigaOS Workbench and dashboard software Apple Widgets...
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    Sticky Notes is a desktop notes application included in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. The app loads quickly and enables...
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  • applications. Windows Sidebar is a translucent panel that hosts gadgets that display details such as feeds and sports scores on the Windows desktop; the Sidebar...
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    Microsoft Bing (redirect from Bing Desktop)
    October 30, 2007, the gadgets were known as Live Search gadget and Live Search Maps gadget; both gadgets were removed from Windows Live Gallery due to possible...
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  • desktop wallpaper and single window navigation in Windows Explorer. In 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98, which also included the Windows Desktop Update...
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  • with the Windows desktop gadget feature of Windows Vista and Windows 7, which enables a single gadget to operate simultaneously on a user's desktop while...
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  • presented the Desktop Window Manager in Project Longhorn to the 2003 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, demonstrating wobbly windows. Severe delays...
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  • has 28.39%. For desktop computers and laptops, Microsoft Windows is the most used at 72.22%, followed by Apple's macOS at 14.73%, desktop Linux at 3.88%...
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  • Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became...
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  • Windows Aero theme. The desktop wallpaper and visual styles (Windows 7 Basic) are not user-changeable. In the release candidate versions of Windows 7...
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  • the desktop-oriented interface in line with previous versions of Windows, contrasting the tablet-oriented approach of Windows 8, although Windows 10's...
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  • the return of the Windows Sidebar, which had been removed as part of the development reset, and the introduction of Desktop Gadgets, both of which are...
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  • Windows 8.1 restores this feature partially although unified search still does not search keywords or metadata like scoped search. Windows Desktop Gadgets...
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    (Plasma Nano). Plasma Desktop, in its default configuration, resembles KDesktop from K Desktop Environment 3 and Microsoft Windows XP; however, extensive...
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    workspaces for grouping windows, desktop icons, wallpaper, an ability to keep select windows in foreground, the ability to "roll up" windows to show only their...
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  • sysmon/envsys on NetBSD systat System Monitor (sysmon) top vmstat Windows Desktop Gadgets Windows Task Manager Distributed: Argus (monitoring software) Collectd...
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  • includes a different set of desktop wallpapers not found in other editions. Windows Vista Home Basic Similar to Windows XP Home Edition, the Home Basic...
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