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8 Part 1: The Windows 7 User Experience
2. Double-click the icon of the gadget you want to add to the desktop or
right-click it and then click the Add option on the shortcut menu.
Windows adds the gadget to the right side of the Windows desktop.
3. When you finish adding gadgets, click the Close button in the Gadget
Gallery window.
To download more gadgets from the Internet, open the Gadgets Gallery window as
described in Step 1 and then click the Get More Gadgets Online link. Windows 7
then opens the Personalize Your PC Web page in the Internet Explorer. This page
offers not only gadget news and instructions on how to download new gadgets,
but also information on how to build your own gadgets, if you’re so inclined.
To remove a gadget from the desktop, position the mouse pointer in the upper-
right corner of the gadget you want to remove and then click the X that appears.
Note that removing a gadget from the desktop doesn’t delete it from your
computer — to do that, you need to open the Gadgets Gallery window, right-
click the gadget’s thumbnail, and then choose Uninstall from its shortcut menu.
To restore a gadget that you’ve removed from the desktop, just repeat the pre-
ceding steps for adding a new gadget.
Customizing the contents of a gadget
Many of the gadgets you add to the desktop are generic and need to be custom-
ized. For example, you can customize the Clock gadget by selecting a new clock
face, giving it a name, and selecting a time zone other than your own. (By
default, this analog clock automatically displays the same time as the digital
time display in the notification area of the Windows 7 taskbar.) You also need to
customize the Feed Headlines gadget so that it displays news headlines for a
particular RSS feed to which you’ve subscribed. (See “Internet Explorer 8” in
Part 4 for details on how to subscribe to an RSS feed.)
To customize the contents of a gadget, position the mouse pointer in the upper-
right corner of the gadget and then click the wrench icon that appears immedi-
ately beneath the X. Alternatively, you can also right-click its icon and then
choose Options from the shortcut menu. Windows 7 then opens a dialog box
specific to the gadget that enables you to customize its display.
For example, if you open the settings dialog box for the Clock gadget (see Figure
1-5), you can then select a new clock face by clicking either the Next or Previous
button (the ones with the triangles pointing right and left, respectively), and
entering a clock name (such as London or Beijing) in the Clock Name text box.
Next, select the appropriate time zone for the clock from the Time Zone drop-
down list. In addition, this dialog box contains a Show the Second Hand check
box that you can select if you want the Clock gadget to display a moving red
second hand.
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