![]() It installs easily enough and once launched, shows a familiar Window with some very familiar looking widgets and gadgets: I can’t guarantee it’ll always be that way, so please use caution when you grab a copy and if your anti-virus program complains, don’t install it! Start by going to and downloading the program, then double click to begin the install process:Ĭertainly looks good, doesn’t it? Click Next to continue.ĭisclaimer: I scanned the binary when I downloaded and installed this program and it was clean. Still, let’s have a look, because if all you want is a clock and the clock on the Taskbar (you know, the lower right edge of your screen) isn’t enough, it is a solution. I looked around and did find someone who had cobbled together a Windows 7 widget utility that brings back the original Win7 desktop widgets, but it’s rather flakey from what I can ascertain. Still, the official Microsoft answer for Windows 10 would undoubtedly be “use the active tiles on the new start menu”, and that works when the menu’s visible. And while those active tiles remain accessible from the Start menu, the widgets never quite made it back when we were all dropped back onto the Desktop upon login. True, it did, but then Windows 10 came along and we went back to the Desktop with a Start menu. In fact, it was way back in July of 2010 that Microsoft recommended everyone disable the Win7 Desktop Gadgets!īy Windows 8, the logic was that the start screen would give you everything you wanted, whether it was a weather widget, a clock, a stock ticker or anything else. It was definitely a really cool concept and there were a number of slick widgets people created, but there was one major issue that caused Microsoft to drop it from Windows 8: security. Now that we have the layout, we need to handle starting the clock.Ah yes, the old Desktop Widgets and side panel from Windows 7 days. We also force the window to stay on the top with the -topmost attribute, and bind a function to ctrl-f. We bind the window manager's closing to a function safe_destroy so that we can kill our TimeThread safely when the user closes the window. ![]() Our _init_ sets us up a 500x100 window containing a Label which will display the time, bound to a StringVar. Frame ( self, width = 500, height = 300, bg = "lightgrey" ) self. configure ( "TLabel", foreground = "black", background = "lightgrey", font = ( None, 50 ), anchor = "center" ) self. In this post I'll talk through the code so that you can also make something like this if you find you need something like this.Ĭlass Timer ( tk. I chose to use tkinter for this, since it's my favourite GUI library for simple things like this. ![]() Windows 10 doesn't have a clock widget, and I don't have on in the room visible when I'm at my desk, so it's been a pain to keep an eye on the time whilst gaming.įor this reason, I decided to use my programming skillz to write a little clock widget for a secondary monitor. I've always had the clock widget and the CPU/RAM dial on my second monitor, so I could keep an eye on the important things whilst I had a full screen game on my primary monitor. Of all the things I thought I may miss, I didn't realise that the desktop widgets would be one of them. Since I decided to pass on Windows 8 and 8.1, this was my first experience with something other than Windows 7 for at least 8 years. No surprise, this laptop came with Windows 10 installed. ![]() A few months ago I bought a shiny new gaming laptop as my main computer.
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