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MrRobin replied

4 March 2008, 13:26
Originally posted by beaker View Post

What's the loading time for Vista now? And your processor...?

Well haven't timed it with a stopwatch but it's generally pretty quick... just as fast if not better than my XP machine. Only thing that slows it down is bloody Live Messenger... seems to take all day to initialise??!

2.2Ghz T7500 processor.
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beaker replied

4 March 2008, 13:23
Originally posted by MrRobin View Post

Well I uninstalled Google widgets and loaded up and configured Windows Vista sidebar instead. The two most useful sidebar apps I have are the National Rail Enquiries timetable one and the London Underground line status one. The weather one for the vista sidebar is much nicer too

What's the loading time for Vista now? And your processor...?
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MrRobin replied

4 March 2008, 13:19
Well I uninstalled Google widgets and loaded up and configured Windows Vista sidebar instead. The two most useful sidebar apps I have are the National Rail Enquiries timetable one and the London Underground line status one. The weather one for the vista sidebar is much nicer too
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Ardesco replied

13 February 2008, 12:28
Vista comes with MS widgets, virtually identical to google widgets, but not related as far as I'm aware....

You can get some useful ones like CPU usage, clocks for various time zones, remote desktop, Putty, SSH widgets etc.
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TheFaQQer replied

13 February 2008, 11:12
You can widget any RSS feed, I think - I've not really looked at it on there, but I have on iGoogle on the web to put some decent feeds on there.
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MrRobin replied

13 February 2008, 10:59
Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post

if you're curious about the weather then look out of the window
windows usually has a battery indicator in the system tray

Exactly... hence the post for anything 'useful'. The news ones seem to be mostly unfilterable so you get all kinds of irrelevant crap in there...
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Spacecadet replied

13 February 2008, 10:43
if you're curious about the weather then look out of the window
windows usually has a battery indicator in the system tray
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TheFaQQer replied

13 February 2008, 10:40
Google docs
Google calendar
Gmail
Super Mario
Pacman
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Troll replied

13 February 2008, 10:33
Originally posted by chicane View Post

You might be able to reduce Vista's boot time to 7 minutes if you uninstall Google Widgets.

wot he said
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chicane replied

13 February 2008, 10:30
Originally posted by MrRobin View Post

What are your favorite widgets or should I just ditch the whole thing?

You might be able to reduce Vista's boot time to 7 minutes if you uninstall Google Widgets.
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MrRobin started a topic Google Widgets

13 February 2008, 10:29
Google Widgets

So I've just got a shiny new laptop and I'm getting myself accustomed to Windows Vista.

It also came installed with Google desktop / Google Widgets or whatever it's called and apart from the Weather one and the battery indicator, I can't find anything particuarly useful or interesting.

What are your favorite widgets or should I just ditch the whole thing?
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