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Windows 7 gadgets can be a lot more than a pretty interface for your clock or news feed. Several Windows 7 gadgets exist solely as system monitoring tools that show constantly updated data about your system resources like CPU, memory, hard drive and network usage.

Below are the best free Windows 7 gadgets that can be used to help keep track of system resources:


In a hurry? Take a quick tour of these Windows 7 gadgets to see which ones you like best.

Need Help? See How To Install a Windows Gadget.

Important: Unfortunately, Microsoft no longer supports Windows Gadget development so they can focus on native Windows apps, which will appear in Windows 8. However, all of the gadgets below are still available. Enjoy!

As an army of programmers and testers hammer away on Windows 7 in one part of Microsoft’s sprawling Redmond HQ, a smaller team of designers and graphic artists are already in high gear for the impending Windows 7 marketing assault.

It’s a salvo that will begin before the new OS launches around October and continue in varying degrees and forms until Windows 8 arrives some three years hence.

First up is a new brand identify for Windows 7 which reaches beyond the jewel-like Windows logo itself. This appears to have been finalised as a stylished chevron with the now-mandatory lens flare effect.

The logo was first sighted on Windows 7 retail box shots leaked at the start of this week by Polish Web site Centrum XP. While initially suspected as being fan-created fakes, some detective work by Aussie blogger Long Zheng uncovered an invitation-only ‘Windows Lounge’ Facebook group restricted to Microsoft employees.

This is described as being a “VIP Lounge reserved for the Microsoft community” and featuring “the lighter side of Windows 7”. A Microsoft email address is required to join. Artwork on the Facebook group’s landing page, however, contains the same ‘7’ logo as the artwork on those box shots.

So are the box shots themselves the real deal? Even if they’re legitimate, which we tend to think is the case, they’re still mock-ups bereft of mundane detail rather than the final retail packaging.

As expected they play off the same colour key as Windows Vista – green for Home Premium, blue for Professional and black for Ultimate.

New to the mix are the equivalent ‘upgrade pass’ boxes for stepping up from one edition of Windows 7 to another. These imply that the upgrade process itself, which Microsoft is expected to push quite assiduously, will be run under a ‘Get more now’ marketing mantra.

Gadgets are mini programs that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools. Right-click your desktop and then click Gadgets to find the gadgets that come with Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows 8 Developer Preview, including Calendar, Clock, Weather, Feed Headlines, Slide Show, and Picture Puzzle. To learn more, see Get help using gadgets

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Windows 8 System for All Your Gadgets After the debut de vista previa successful developer Last fall, then, Microsoft has launched a vista previa consumers of todays newest operating system at the Conference Móvil de Barcelona. High expectations after Microsoft surprised the crowd of developers who have come to expect nothing special from Microsoft Due COMPANY Failed to impress with Vista, Or Its right there since the de Windows 95 product. But engineers like 8, defined by Re-Start menu and the ability to run on both computers and tableta. Now the OS is READY for the Mass at the Microsoft site. It is expected that following APA.

An Operating System for each gadget. Windows 8 will work on tableta, plain old phone and computer. "We all face the longing for some we choose between productivity and consumption .. A tableta portátil Or? A tabletas Or touch interface and a mouse?" El presidente window, Steven Sinofsky said in the conference. Windows 8 will provide the APA Sinofsky called "no experience of compromise". Not Just a UIT means working on All kinds of different Plataforma de, Microsoft TAPI 8 connecting these devices, using a cuenta de Microsoft that will transfer the settings from the device to the next saturación.

Inicio en el menu will look funny. Microsoft has decided to change the FEATURES that define, create "tiles" (see ABOVE) del de inicio NOT a traditional menu. New menu shows the applications tiles are put in a box, much like the interface Metro First introduced in Windows Phone. And there is no empezar button. No more ctrl-alt-delete, I Just Can press entrar, thats good.

All kinds of navigation options. Cross-section of the Plataforma estratégicamente All sorts of way gives users to access the system. "Windows 8 new Start screen provides an easy to use and intuitive interface," explains the manual de consumers to Microsofts business New New-posted. "With the full inmersión 8 de Windows applications and support for multi-touch and teclado traditional and Raton."

And indeed, during the presentation vice presidencial alto Julie Larson Green swiped from the display screen to the tableta. "Hes going through conmutación application by swiping from left side", apunt clear, the direct de blog event. "Its pretty slick multitarea manager". COMPANY deputy Antoine Leblond presidencial navigated portátil and said, "I could use the wheel, page up page to the bottom, Juego de palabras what you expect". As expected, the application click Open. And, navigating to and from the screen version of Microsoft involves hot corner. "If I only want to Return to the Home view, I moved to the bottom left corner if you want to open an application, you move to the bottom there -. Thats where the inicio First", entre otras cosas continue.

A aplicación store. Microsoft now has saturación. This is called Tienda de Windows and have hundreds of applications from both third-party developers and Microsoft, explained Press Release. Just published. Bono: Sr application. Free, as long vista previa consumers, at least.

On the developer side, back when Microsoft announced the developer preview of Windows 8, we recommend that developers want Microsoft to Open Systems. Microsoft confirmed this. "One nice thing about working in the Customer Preview has been talking to developers," Leblond said. "They were very nice to transparency and clarity by adding the application to the Economic app store We have the best out there .. We have a range of never before for their application".