Windows 7 - having trouble with gadgets. Very limited.

[Technique]

I've just formatted my SSD & i'm putting everything back together. The gadgets selection seems to have changed in the past year. I approach it like i did a year ago:

* Right click desktop

* Select gadgets

* Select get more gadgets online

I'm then greeted with a very sparse list. Last time i checked there were plenty of gadgets, now i'm looking at 31 gadgets., Where did all the others go?

I've got most the ones i had. There's one that was a rectangular big digital clock which i can't find.

Why so limited?

[James Rose]

You said you formatted, that would remove all the gadgets you downloaded. Windows only comes with a few.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

Microsoft recently closed down their main gadget site saying "we're looking towards a better future" or something stupid like that

****ed me right the F off when I found that out when I formated recently

[Dot Matrix]

Microsoft recently closed down their main gadget site saying "we're looking towards a better future" or something stupid like that

****ed me right the F off when I found that out when I formated recently

Their own fault, really. It was a neat idea, poorly implemented, and then properly ignored.

[+primortal Subscriber²]

Their own fault, really. It was a neat idea, poorly implemented, and then properly ignored.

But why kill the site when Windows 8 isn't even out yet; IMHOP stupid decision.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

But why kill the site when Windows 8 isn't even out yet; IMHOP stupid decision.

completely agree with you there

[Technique]

Damn. So i'm totally out of luck then. :(

EDIT: Could they be downloaded online (i guess from something that isn't M$ supported), or is this not possible?

[+primortal Subscriber²]

You just have to search the interwebs to see what you can find or dump the windows gadgets all together and go with Rainmeter or XWidget for your desktop gadgets.

Also take a look at this post, https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1042637-some-really-cool-win7-gadgets-i-found-tonight/page__pid__594491107#entry594491107

[Anthonyd]

But why kill the site when Windows 8 isn't even out yet; IMHOP stupid decision.

Also, Windows 8 DP still supports the gagdet :D

[drtweak]

Here is a link to all the Windows desktop gadgets.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets

:)

[Technique]

Thanks guys, though some of those gadgets i think look terrible. I may just leave it. Can you not download the old gadgets that were available through MS?

Here is a link to all the Windows desktop gadgets.

http://windows.micro...onalize/gadgets

:)

That's exactly the page i get from the method i mentioned in OP

[Fraud OS 11]

There's also a torrent floating around with huge numbers of gadgets. ;)

[Technique]

I found a website with a few gadgets on last night. Not many, but enough to get me what i wanted.

Shame they removed this feature, or don't support it as much. I thought it was quite good.

[BetaAddict]

Gadgets were useless. Very few good ones worth using, and most of them had very limited functionality or customizability, so I eventually just gave up on them since they just clutter the desktop.

Rainmeter has been treating me just fine since I started using it past few months and customizability is off the charts with most themes. But this is the exact reason why Metro and Immersive desktop is needed in Win8, to replace gadgets and actually create dashboard for all of it.

[muratoner]

deviantart still has a lot of gadgets..luckily i did saved a lot of gadgets before MS closed the site.(about 80mb no game gadgets)

You can always find in torrents also as said in previous comment

[Fraud OS 11]

There's a nice calendar gadget here: http://tinnes.org.uk/desktopcalendar/screenshots.php .But paid.