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    Does anyone use the windows sidebar for gpu-z, hwmonitor, cpuid-like programs

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by PopRoxMimo3, Nov 19, 2009.

  1. PopRoxMimo3

    PopRoxMimo3 Notebook Deity

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    Im discovering this just now. Somehow i hated in vista but absolutely love it now
     
    PopRoxMimo3, Nov 19, 2009
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    HW Monitor Meter is nice.
     
    Szadzik, Nov 20, 2009
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    i want to know too
    i tried looking for stuff like this soon after vista came out, and i gave up because there was absolutely nothing
     
    timtravel42, Nov 20, 2009
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    There is no gadget that can do this on it's own. You need a program like everest of HW monitor running in the background and the gadget is displaying the info reported by the program.

    I stopped using them because I do not want to run a monitoring program in the background all the time. I am using margu-NotebookInfo2 but no gadget to display temperature.
     
    wave, Nov 20, 2009
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