

It displays the status of each contact in Skype with possibilities to immediately initiate a chat or call with the selected user. The Skype Gadget is a little informative gadget for the Skype voice over IP software. It displays contact status information and allows the user to start chat session and update the status right from the Messenger gadget.Ī handy gadget for users who use Pop3 email accounts informing the logged in user about new emails that arrived in the email accounts. The Messenger Gadget displays Windows Live Messenger account information. The gadget offers a search and filters to only display replies or mentions. The Twitter Explorer gadget will display the latest messages that the logged in Twitter user received with possibilities to reply immediately to those messages and to open links that have been posted in the messages. It will display a summary of the latest 20 received emails and notify the user with a sound alert if new emails have arrived in the Gmail account. The Gmail Reader gadget will check a configured Gmail account for new emails regularly. A Facebook login is necessary for that authorization.Ī gadget that displays Outlook information including incoming appointments and tasks, a search box to find contacts, incoming mails with options to reply, forward, delete, open or save attachments and more. This is done during setup where the gadget will display links to Facebook so that it can be authorized. The gadget needs to be authorized before it can be used. It is furthermore possible to set or delete the current status of the user's Facebook account from within the gadget. Some of them even come with additional functionality like being able to send status updates to the online service or chatting with friends right from the desktop without having to open the software program to do so.įacebook Explorer is a popular gadget that can be used to read new messages that are posted by friends at the Facebook website. These gadgets display information and notifications about online services such as Facebook and Twitter or software programs like Outlook or Skype on the Windows desktop. The following list contains email and notification gadgets for Windows 7 (or Windows Vista).

Gadgets in Windows 7 can be moved freely around on the computer desktop unlike how they were initially implemented in Windows Vista where they were locked on a sidebar.
