People who can afford enormous monitors will love Windows Vista's new Sidebar, that gadget-packed strip along the desktop's right edge. People with small monitors may find it a bothersome waste of space.
Windows Vista contains a little blue screen icon in the taskbar's Notification Area -- that icon-packed area next to the desktop's clock -- double click this and click Show Sidebar.
To see Windows Vista's collection of built-in Gadgets (minuscule programs that snap on and off their panel), click the little plus sign near the Sidebar's top edge. A window pops up offering a clock and slideshow, among others. Click Get More Gadgets Online to head to Gadget nirvana: A Web site packed with Gadgets, ready for the picking.
Prefer your Sudoku game gadget on top? Drag it up there. You can even drag Gadgets off the Sidebar and onto the desktop -- if you have a huge enough monitor to sacrifice the space.
To change a Gadget's settings -- such as to choose which photos appear in your Slideshow, for example -- point at the Gadget and click the little checkmark that appears. To remove a Gadget completely, click the little X instead.
Thanks for the heads-up, Christo!
I will install Vista sometime soon to check it out... (dual boot- WinXP FTW!)
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