Way back in 2008, I wrote an article titled The top 10 Vista Sidebar Gadgets. Now its 2010 and Im running Windows 7, and although I still use most of the gadgets I. Screenshot of Windows Vista Ultimate, showing its desktop, taskbar, Start menu, Windows Sidebar, Welcome Center and glass effects of Windows Aero. Windows 7 NT 6. 1Location GUIs. Windows 7 NT 6. 1lt lt Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page Windows 7screen shots. Now that Microsoft has officially released Windows 7 to the public. Microsoft has changed around this. Underneath the hood it is not much different from Vista Windows. NT 6. 0. In fact, despite the name Windows 7 its actual version number. O_3RNoFHOCA/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Desktop Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets' title='Desktop Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets' />Windows NT 6. The default Windows 7 desktop. The background always defaults to this. Window logo decorated with birds, butterflies, and trees. Is that a fresh. pine scent I smellThe most immediate changes to the default desktop. The Sidebar is gone. Flip 3. D, The Expos like thing that previews all windows at once. WinTab. The Show Desktop button has been removed and replaced with a slim button like. F8D3/20938805490-0/original.jpg' alt='Desktop Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets' title='Desktop Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets' />Search is no longer on the start menu. The Internet and E Mail icons in the start menu that point to default. The Task Bar has been significantly altered. By default the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and Media. Desktop gadgets were those movable widgets that displayed bits of information on your screen. With Windows 10, they were replaced in favor of live tiles. Heres how. As you all know, Gadgets were introduced with Vista and are present in Windows 7 as well. Super Games Vcd 300. Gadgets are helpful to quickly view various information right on your desktop. Microsoft removed desktop gadgets in Windows 10 in favor of Windows Store apps. However, the Windows Live tiles and Windows Store apps cannot fully replace desktop. Vista Sidebar Gadgets Vista Sidebar Gadgets. The Sidebar is a panel on your Vista desktop where you can add applets or Vista Gadgets. When Vista was at the beta. Player icons are prominently displayed on the task bar. Like Windows XP and Vista the only desktop icon that is present by default. Recycle Bin. If you dig around in the preferences you can still. Desktop Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets' title='Desktop Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets' />My Computer and  Network desktop icons. In a way, with the. With a little bit of fiddling you actually can manually add. On the task bar, Microsoft has removed the Quick Launch shortcut. Instead,  icons of executables are pinned to the task bar. This. makes the task bar work more like the Dock on the Apple Macintosh. In this example, Paint and Notepad have been pinned to the taskbar. IE has been unpinned. Paint is not running, but two instances of. Notepad are running and the Notepad icon changes to look like a button. The right click context menus can also now contain various application. Right clicking no longer lists open windows, but that. Most system tray icons also have new simplified menus that appear when. Windows Vista already added window previews, but in Windows 7 hovering. Hovering over the thumbnail brings that window to the front while making. The sidebar has been removed and is no longer necessary. Gadgets, which. had been confined to the sidebar in Vista can now be placed anywhere on. Apparently Gadgets are considered important enough they now. The desktop right click context menu also now contains a Screen Resolution. When Microsoft replaced the Display Properties menu with the Personalize. Battle Isle Incubation. Vista, users had to wade through the more complicated webby style. Personalize window to get to that. I wonder if MS actually listened to. Balmer tried to use his laptop with the projector in meetings. A minor interesting addition to the general window management is that. Dragging. to the top or bottom will maximize the window while dragging to the left. Note that Tile Horizontally and Tile Vertically options are no longer. Taskbar context menu. Tiling has been a feature of Microsoft Windows since version 1. Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page.