This guy has some slick Win7 gadgets for system-nerds!

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http://www.myfavoritegadgets.info

I was on the hunt for a Pagefile gadget and came across this site, I ran a few through various scanners online (jotti, virus total etc) and offline (MSE, MWB, SUPER) and no dodgyness was found so I gave them all a try and wow, so much customisation compared to everything else I have tried before and looks great too with a wealth of info useful for those who like to monitor.

FWIW: The Pagefile report matches that of Resource Monitor so is perfectly suitable for monitoring purposes :cool:

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Looks very nice, even though Afterburner/Process Monitor can do the same. I take it that these are always running in the background? How much VRAM do they take and are they affected by/require Aero to be enabled?
 
Gadgets come under the sidebar.exe application and it uses so little RAM/VRAM that it's not even registered under top 5 memory processes.

It uses no resources pretty much either and I have mine to refesh every second for RAM/CPU and every 3 for most other widgets.

Widgets are not something that consume resources or have demanding needs :p
 
Looks rather cool.

If anyone wants a nice clock, HTC Home (http://www.htchome.org) is rather good. It doesn't actually run as a sidebar widget but it's not really a system hog either. The newer versions have added more functionality/features (which seem a bit superfluous to me) so I've stuck with an older version. Fans of HTC's Android widgets will like it.
 
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Looks rather cool.

If anyone wants a nice clock, HTC Home (http://www.htchome.org) is rather good. It doesn't actually run as a sidebar widget but it's not really a system hog either. The newer versions have added more functionality/features (which seem a bit superfluous to me) so I've stuck with an older version. Fans of HTC's Android widgets will like it.
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Tried this a while back but ended up using HUD Time instead which is very good.
 
found it finally lol... took me 10 mins im getting old :(

(thought the links were the usual dodgy stuff you get on sites that look similar :()
 
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Very nice! :cool:

Will have to change the colours for the top 5 processes gadgets though, as that green and orange together looks quite horrific :p


And why not use the gadgets? :confused:

With 9 gadgets running, it is only using 80MB of RAM, they tell you everything you need to know, just by glimpsing to your second screen and you can see your GPU usage for VRAM, load etc. when in game etc. as opposed to having task manager and other programs like MSI afterburner, some temp monitoring program for the GPU etc. running and taking up more of the screen and just not looking as good as these sidebar gadgets. You also get some very neat little features built into these as well, like a sound to warn you when hitting a certain temp or physical usage of RAM hitting 90% etc.
 
Yup^


Also, SHOCKER as someone makes a nerd comment on an overclocking forum :rolleyes:
 
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