TechFlashed : Microsoft has advised its Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to disable the Sidebar and Gadget features of the operating systems due to security reasons.
I never understood the point behind them myself and always looked at them as complete and total memory sucks. As if we didn't have enough running in the background like, Windows Updates, Antivirus protection, 3rd party Firewall, Malware protection and our copious amounts of bit torrent porn downloads.
I would have preferred that they fix whatever needs fixing rather than getting rid of them. Besides, half of the ones are using come from MS themselves. Can't those be secure?
If you guys are complaining about it hogging up memory I am curious to see what you're computer is. Nowadays computers have 8GB of RAM. The amount of memory the gadgets uses is nothing compared to that.
6GB on my laptop. I mean come on... 50-100MB for a clock? No thanks.
What's worse is that the gadgets don't always load up, or somehow freezes your system if you make changes too quickly...even on an i7 system I tried. Not sure why, but they are just poorly coded.
who would use some memory wasting objects like these in the first place.
did vista teach you nothing
We wont find these gadgets in Windows 8, thats why Microsoft wanted to disable gadgets in Vista and 7 also.
I would have preferred that they fix whatever needs fixing rather than getting rid of them. Besides, half of the ones are using come from MS themselves. Can't those be secure?
I hate those gadgets... mainly because of the amount of memory it hogs for the little purpose it serves.
If you guys are complaining about it hogging up memory I am curious to see what you're computer is. Nowadays computers have 8GB of RAM. The amount of memory the gadgets uses is nothing compared to that.