Win10 system to add win7 desktop gadget tutorial

win7 system has been praised by many users, among which desktop gadgets are favored, but in the win10 technology preview version, Microsoft did not add this feature, but here for you A tutorial on adding desktop gadget features to the win10 system.

1. From the GadgetsRevived website, download the desktop gadget installer “Desktop Gadgets Installer”.

2, then, double-click to install "Desktop Gadgets Installer";;
Desktop Gadgets Installer

3, in the blank space of the desktop, click the right mouse button. See if the desktop gadget is back?
Desktop gadget

▲The original frosted glass transparency effect due to the change of Win10 system DWM (desktop window manager) and Aero theme
The widget window displays or has errors, such as the left and right colors like the one above. However, this does not affect the use of these gadgets.

If you adjust the display DPI zoom level, then under Win10, you may encounter a gadget display error problem, the following is the solution:

1, close all desktop gadgets, Then in the Task Manager (can be opened by right-clicking on the bottom taskbar), “Windows Desktop Gadgets“process;
terminate”Windows Desktop Gadgets“process

2, enter The following location: "C:\\Program Files\\Windows Sidebar\\Gadgets”, and then find the folder corresponding to the specific problem gadget, such as “CPU.Gadget”. You will then find a file called gadget.xml in the folder "zh-CN".
Folder

3. Use Notepad to open the gadget.xml file, change the true in the line to false, then save the changes and choose to save the file to the desktop. Then replace the original file in the copy from the desktop to the folder. Ok, now you can display the gadget normally.
Notepad

To delete a gadget is also very simple, just go to the Control Panel —— program and function, you can uninstall the program.