When Windows Vista came out one of the many features that was touted included the sidebar. This window sits on your desktop with a plethora of applications – better known as gadgets available to run in it. There are currently over 2,200 gadgets listed at the Microsoft’s Live Gallery.
When I was running only one monitor on my home computer I messed around with the sidebar but it never stayed on the desktop for long. For the last 5 months or so I have had a two monitor setup and the sidebar has found a permanent home on my setup.
What I would like to do is share what gadgets have earned a piece of the sidebar – there are 5 permanent ones and one that I have just stuck on there to check it out.
From the top to the bottom:
- Vista Orb Clock
- Windows Sidebar Weather Gadget (comes with Vista)
- Woot
- All CPU Meter (Quad Core or Dual Core and RAM)
- Network Traffic
- Indexer Status Gadget
So what do you have on your sidebar? Feel free to post links to a picture in the comments.
