Vista - CPU Gadget Revisited

Hi,
Absolutely HATE the white cppu gadget.
Found the black one. Imported it. Unzipped it. Put it in the sidebar gadgets
folder;along with the rest of the gadgets
But now, it won't open in the gadgets panel;to add it to the sidebar,

Any help?

Jeff

Hello. This may be a tangent... I found one black CPU meter to download, but
the notes said the memory part wasn't working, plus it was in .rar format
which I can't extract...

Next I searched my computer for my gadgets. The user-specific ones are in
Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets, but the
MS-installed ones are all in Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets. When I
went there and opened the CPU gadget, all the old (black) .PNG files were
there, loose outside the images folder (kept from Beta 2 I suppose, because I
upgraded).

I just moved them into the images folder, replacing the ones that were
there. (Actually I couldn't do that without messing with permissions, but I
was able to copy & rename the gadget to something else "myCPU.gadget", and
then do the replacement.) Now both gadgets show up in the Gadget Gallery
(both named CPU Meter since I didn't do anything else like rename it within
the file), and I can use either or both. Nice to have my black CPU meter
back, hope it works for you. (If you don't still have the black .PNGs, you
can probably get them from that one you downloaded.)

Theano

"Jeff" wrote:

> Hi,
> Absolutely HATE the white cppu gadget.
> Found the black one. Imported it. Unzipped it. Put it in the sidebar gadgets
> folder;along with the rest of the gadgets
> But now, it won't open in the gadgets panel;to add it to the sidebar,
>
> Any help?
>
> Jeff
>
>

Theano,
Thx;
I'm not very competent;
I thought I followed your directions to the letter;but its not working.
Jeff
"Theano" <Theano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:108438A0-99A5-410B-833B-B28F4E1FF58A@microsoft.com...
> Hello. This may be a tangent... I found one black CPU meter to download,
> but
> the notes said the memory part wasn't working, plus it was in .rar format
> which I can't extract...
>
> Next I searched my computer for my gadgets. The user-specific ones are in
> Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets, but the
> MS-installed ones are all in Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets. When I
> went there and opened the CPU gadget, all the old (black) .PNG files were
> there, loose outside the images folder (kept from Beta 2 I suppose,
> because I
> upgraded).
>
> I just moved them into the images folder, replacing the ones that were
> there. (Actually I couldn't do that without messing with permissions, but
> I
> was able to copy & rename the gadget to something else "myCPU.gadget", and
> then do the replacement.) Now both gadgets show up in the Gadget Gallery
> (both named CPU Meter since I didn't do anything else like rename it
> within
> the file), and I can use either or both. Nice to have my black CPU meter
> back, hope it works for you. (If you don't still have the black .PNGs, you
> can probably get them from that one you downloaded.)
>
> Theano
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Absolutely HATE the white cppu gadget.
>> Found the black one. Imported it. Unzipped it. Put it in the sidebar
>> gadgets
>> folder;along with the rest of the gadgets
>> But now, it won't open in the gadgets panel;to add it to the sidebar,
>>
>> Any help?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>

I just posted a reply, but I think it went to IE7 neverland. Basically, it
asked what specifically didn't work. Were you able to find the old black
..pngs and copy them, paste them into the \images folder of the cpu gadget, or
a copy of that gadget., (which must have a .gadget extension, e.g.
myCPU.gadget)? Do two CPU meters then appear in your Gadget Gallery? Be sure
to quit the one that is running before proceeding. You can always quit and
reopen sidebar or restart windows for good measure.

"Jeff" wrote:

> Theano,
> Thx;
> I'm not very competent;
> I thought I followed your directions to the letter;but its not working.
> Jeff
> "Theano" <Theano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:108438A0-99A5-410B-833B-B28F4E1FF58A@microsoft.com...
> > Hello. This may be a tangent... I found one black CPU meter to download,
> > but
> > the notes said the memory part wasn't working, plus it was in .rar format
> > which I can't extract...
> >
> > Next I searched my computer for my gadgets. The user-specific ones are in
> > Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets, but the
> > MS-installed ones are all in Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets. When I
> > went there and opened the CPU gadget, all the old (black) .PNG files were
> > there, loose outside the images folder (kept from Beta 2 I suppose,
> > because I
> > upgraded).
> >
> > I just moved them into the images folder, replacing the ones that were
> > there. (Actually I couldn't do that without messing with permissions, but
> > I
> > was able to copy & rename the gadget to something else "myCPU.gadget", and
> > then do the replacement.) Now both gadgets show up in the Gadget Gallery
> > (both named CPU Meter since I didn't do anything else like rename it
> > within
> > the file), and I can use either or both. Nice to have my black CPU meter
> > back, hope it works for you. (If you don't still have the black .PNGs, you
> > can probably get them from that one you downloaded.)
> >
> > Theano
> >
> > "Jeff" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> Absolutely HATE the white cppu gadget.
> >> Found the black one. Imported it. Unzipped it. Put it in the sidebar
> >> gadgets
> >> folder;along with the rest of the gadgets
> >> But now, it won't open in the gadgets panel;to add it to the sidebar,
> >>
> >> Any help?
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >>
>
>