Written on December 9, 2009 – 4:41 am | by CoolGadgetConcept |
The Microsoft Company replaced the XP operating system with Vista. The new one is upgraded, it has a new and fresh look, but if you like XP more than Vista as an operating system but you want the Vista look you can install Vista Sidebar XP.

This application is able to recreate the Vista Sidebar and it comes with 4 preset features: one of them is image preview window, an elegant analogue clock, RSS feed and a search function. It is a good gadget for XP but it has a few negative aspects: one of them is the fact that the image tool from the application doesn't allow users to select the folder from which they want the pictures to be display, so the tool picks up photos in a random way from the hard drive. The side bar is impossible to minimize and all the tools are locked. When you will install this gadget you will see three packages, all of them need to be installed: Windows Sidebar Installer, Gadget Extractor and Alky for Applications. The last one is an application that lets specific Vista software to run under XP. This application has a lot of gadgets like: media players, a lot of search engines and Yahoo or Google search. The Vista sidebar for Microsoft Windows XP has also a currency gadget, a system up-time gadget and a weather gadget. You will also find the next options that can help your work time at the computer to become easier: a calendar option, an internet traffic option, RAM and CPU reader, picture slide, update features, progress dialogs, torrent search and sidebar skins.



Audials TV is a software application for XP. It is free to download and the gadget comes with 50 different music streaming TV channels for your personal computer. It is very easy to download and if you click the Sender button will appear a list of available channels, 50 to be exact like I said it before. In this list you will find Ministry of Sound, MTV, SlamTV and other popular music stations. The sound quality and the image can vary from channel to channel and you might also find some channels that don't connect. With this XP gadget you will watch and have streaming music TV channels on your computer for free. You are able to choose from many channels but you don't have any configuration options, so this gadget can't be personalized but is great application for those of you who love music. You can TV programs or you can listen online radio stations.



Are you bored with the same Windows XP icons, if you are Bee Icons 4.0.2.1 is the XP gadget for you. The application has about 200 artistic images for you to replace the XP system icons. You can change Folder types, Files types, the Start Menu and a lot more. It is very easy to use you only need a few clicks and then the work is done. Beside the 200 artistic images you have also 50 icon themes to choose from, for example you have: Industrial theme, XP Folders theme, Black and White theme, Robotic theme, Retro theme, Gooey Green theme and Fruits and Veggies theme. You have even the possibility to make you XP desktop look like the Mac OS's desktop. Now you have the possibility to personalize your desktop in many ways using different icons

Thoosje Quick XP Optimizer V2.0 is a XP gadget that can help you optimize XP in a secure, simple and effective way. After you install this application you will se that your computer will run faster, the applications will run smoother and they will load quicker. The browsing process on the Internet will also be faster.



The installation isn't at one click away but you don't need to be a computer smart to figure it out and to help you I will show you how to do it: the first step is to download the application form the internet, the application is in a .zip format. The next step is to unzip the file with whatever program for unzipping you have. Then you must run an .msi file you will found after unzipping, the whole name of the file is Thoosje Quick XP Optimizer.msi. This step will install the application on your computer and will make a shortcut on your desktop. You can then click on the shortcut button and start to optimize what you want with a click on the Optimize Button. If you don't like the optimization that the gadget did to your computer you can always undo the process by clicking on the restore button. The application has a user friendly interface, it has checkboxes for you to select what you need to optimize, has a privacy sweep feature, a security defense option, it can also clean junk files and can reset and flush DNS cache. With the application you have also free updates; you have the possibility to select or unselect the features you want.

The application does a lot for your computer, the optimize windows interface option will disable unless features and animations to help the system load faster. The privacy sweep option will delete your cookies and the internet history. Security defense option will block the websites that want to install cookies in the computer system. The clean junk files option will delete the information you don't need to recover hard disk space, for example the files from recycle been or temporary internet files. Start up manager helps you remove the programs that make your computer start up slower.

Overall, if you are an XP fun you can find a lot of gadgets for your operating system on the Internet and most of them are free to download.