What are the must have Vista Sidebar Gadgets?

_Jimlad_ · 30 Apr 2008 at 14:37

seems to be so many out there, so what are the ones you use?

J.B · 30 Apr 2008 at 14:48

the sidebar annoyed me! but the best gadget I saw was one from national rail which was a live timetable update and search. useful if you get a lot of trains like me

_Jimlad_ · 30 Apr 2008 at 14:55

i see, well i thought i would ask and see if there are any worth having, otherwise i will turn it off.

ants83 · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:19

i use cpu temp things, the clock thats about it

Thorien · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:39

weather gadget is quite good....

Jed Shields · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:44

I use CPU usage, Network upload / download speeds, Hard Drive space, weather, temps (although I haven't got it working yet). There's a good site that has a load of them:

http://www.thehobbylounge.com/forum/

Ross1234 · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:46

I forgot it existed! I turned it off a long time ago.

Snakedoctor · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:50

Clock, Rss, Slideshow, Weather, Quicklaunch, uptime and CPU usage/temps with graph. I disable it when gaming.

marc2003 · 30 Apr 2008 at 17:46

keep an eye out for some of the 3rd party ones for their cpu/memory usages. some are obscene. i had a hard drive usage monitor that was taking 250+mb of ram. :eek:

xirokx · 30 Apr 2008 at 18:04

sky news, sky sports, the usual CPU, RAM , GPU usage etc

s1lversurfer · 30 Apr 2008 at 19:24

The BBC Radio Player gadget is cool. :cool:

Flibster · 30 Apr 2008 at 21:13

Daily Dilbert.

Now playing
CPU usage/memory/temps

Aod · 30 Apr 2008 at 21:24

when last i used vista i had an invaluable one that allowed sleep / shutdown / restart without having to use the annoying minimenu in the start menu.

apatia77 · 30 Apr 2008 at 21:37

it was fun while it lasted, i turned it off as it didnt bring any benefits for me anymore,

Burnsy2023 · 30 Apr 2008 at 21:59

I have: uTorrent, remote desktop and then two gadgets for processor usage and top processes.

Burndy

brendy · 30 Apr 2008 at 23:02

Mine, mostly self explanatory, bottom one is the vnc gadget which is a little buggy, each reboot you need to hit the question mark and click ok to reaffirm the already shown program path to vnc.

Cob · 30 Apr 2008 at 23:11

Clock, Multi Meter 4 Core, Everest, Top Processes

point decay · 30 Apr 2008 at 23:56

Everest, superb gadget

Doohickey · 1 May 2008 at 00:56

I turned my sidebar off, I'm hardly ever on the desktop, always have windows open, so there's not much point really. Save a little in resources too I guess.

_Jimlad_ · 3 May 2008 at 10:51

thanks i will try Everest