(And thanks to Windows 7’s superbar, the taskbar turned application launcher at the bottom of the screen, this is easier than ever). I also limit the number of desktop icons displayed too. Gadgets, in case you don’t know, are desktop widgets that can connect to the internet to display updated information like weather or news or connect to your computer itself to deliver stats on your PC’s resources like CPU and memory usage.īut being a bit of a desktop purist myself, I’ll admit that I’ve limited my gadgets to only two so far – one for weather and one for RSS feeds.
Thanks to Into Windows, I just discovered a pretty glass gadget collection for Windows 7.