Vista Sidebar Gadgets

[s_kinton]

Erm no, it was released as final in September - I rather like it, and given the right hardware and choice of scenes it has next to no impact whatsoever.

That'll teach me to turn automatic updates off!!! I'll check that out tonight.

Does it come with some more dreamscenes to use? Ive always struggled to find good ones.

[mountainmachine]

Just starting to play around with these, i used to run desktop sidebar in XP when i ran 2 screens was very usefull, just need to customise it to the same functionality.

[this_is_gav]

That'll teach me to turn automatic updates off!!! I'll check that out tonight.

Does it come with some more dreamscenes to use? Ive always struggled to find good ones.

No idea as I only just touched on the beta. I think there were 4 that came down, but I can't confirm that. If you do a Google they're springing up all over the place.

I assume if you have PureVideo you'll be able to use HD ones so it takes up absolutely minimal CPU cycles (as in 0-2%). That's the it works with AVIVO.

[Blademrk]

I use a hdd monitor, msn monitor and e-mail monitor on mine

[fuddam]

clock (for second time zone - systray can't do that )

network rail thing (for any dept times from A to B)

picture gallery etc

[mycarsavw]

I despise it, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The last time it didn't work I turned it off, and removed all my gadgets.

My system is monitored in my tray with various programs whose combined system usage is a quarter of the sidebar. Nearly every other gadget I have has a FF counterpart.