The widgets can be placed anywhere on the desktop. Each widget can be further customized by hovering the mouse over it and selecting the 'tool' icon that appeared. You can add a widget of your choice by right-clicking a widget in Gadgets panel and selecting 'Add' from the options (you can also double-click on the widget to place it directly on the desktop). The gadgets panel display all the installed widgets available in the system including the ones I have mentioned. To add a widget, users will need to right-click the desktop area and select 'Gadgets' from the menu. Among these are clock, calender, Internet radio, CPU speed, control system, CPU meter, clipboard, currency meter, app launcher, feed headlines, GPU meter, my weather, reminder, volume control, sticky notes, unit converter, and much more. Moreover, more than 30 widgets come pre-installed, so you have wide variety of options to chose from. Unlike Win10 Widgets, 8GadgetPack integrate itself into the windows system after it is installed and makes the whole process of adding and managing the widgets easier. All you need to do is download and install the app, and you are halfway done. With 8GadgetPack, you can enable widgets (or gadgets as some call it) on your Windows 10 screen.

There is also an app called 'Win10 Widgets' that can get the job done, but I will be focusing on 8GadgetPack because it is more flexible and easier to use. Right-click the desktop and select Gadgetsĭouble-click on a widget to place it on the desktopīut as a Windows 10 user, you can enable widget by installing an app called 8GadgetPack.

Allowing third-parties to create widgets for Windows clustered the whole thing and that also may be the reason why it got discontinued. Of course, the average users does not care about the widgets gathering their data as long as the widgets proved useful. The Windows Gadget got discontinued after Windows 7 because there were some widgets that were configured to fetch users data in providing the necessary info that the widget were built for.

Also read: How to add a floating shortcut bar to your Windows 10 desktop

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