This entry has been published on 2015-03-21 and may be out of date.
Last Updated on 2015-03-21.
Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft unfortunately decided not to offer Windows Gadgets, some useful tools available for the desktop, any more. In addition, many gadget sites have disappeared.
To be sure they won’t get lost, I put my favorite gadgets here.
Weather
Web Radio
For Shoutcast:
CPU usage
Ping
VNC
Wake on LAN
(If an author does not want to be listed here, please send me a message)
Note: To run the gadget under Windows 8 / 8.1, use 8GadgetPack.
Note 2: Internet Explorer might try to add the .gadget extension to .zip when downloading. In this case simply rename the file back to .gadget (do not extract!) after download has finished.