Questions tagged [widgets]
An application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access a service. For example, a web widget is a small application that can be installed and executed within a web page by an end user.
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How to delete the Shopping widget from Windows 11
In Windows 11 Enterprise, I have enabled the 'widget' menu, added some widgets to it, and removed others.
There is only the Shopping widget ('Winkelen' in the screenshot below) that I can hide by ...
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Setup wxWidgets on Code::Blocks
I want to setup wxWidgets 3.2.1 in Code::Blocks 20.03, but with no success.
Here are the steps I took so far:
Installed GCC 12.2.0 MinGW-W64
Installed Code::Blocks 20.03 mingw setup
Installed ...
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Disable widgets for Windows 11 kiosk
I've set up a Windows 11 kiosk using Edge and a full screen web application.
This works pretty decently. However, the "widgets" panel is still accessible by swiping from the left hand of ...
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Windows 10/11 widget/system icon for a bluetooth device battery
Normally we often check bluetooth devices battery by this way:
But it will be more convenient if we can see it on the system tray like laptop's battery:
or have a 3rd party app display it like this ...
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How to fix Windows 11 widgets not loading?
This is my Widgets view currently
I recently re-installed Windows 11 Pro and have run into a weird issue. My widgets area just stopped loading altogether.
Upon the first few startups, the Widgets area ...
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How to delete the news widget in windows 11?
I upgraded to windows 11, and there are the new widgets. But I don't like the news widget that comes by default and want to remove it. Is there any way to do that?
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The method suggested is not ...
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Widget on task bar for currency conversion
Is there a way to have a widget for currency conversions (enter a value of currency A so the price for that value on currency B) on the taskbar? (like the default windows 10 for the weather for ...
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How do I prevent Widgets.exe from getting automatically started on Windows 11?
How do I gracefully prevent Widgets.exe from starting automatically on my Windows 11?
By "gracefully", I mean I don't like deleting it or messing with the filesystem security.
It's already ...
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Windows 11 Widgets Not Opening Intel UHD 10th Generation
Windows 11 widgets are not running at all. GPU: Intel UHD 10th Generation
After a clean installation, they were working.
After updating Windows they still worked.
After updating the Store apps, the ...
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how to put a customizable button on the desktop?
i use a lot of adobe illustrator. i use delete button the most.I am using windows.
is there a way to create a floating customizable button like a widget or applet ?
I would like to assign the "...
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Windows 10 Widget Menu
I've got a windows 10 (desktop) with the german language activated. While I left the room and came back suddenly a semi transparent menu popped up which was called "windows widget menu". It ...
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How can I disable the “News and Interests” Widget on the Windows 10 Taskbar?
On Windows 10 version 1909 and newer releases, Microsoft has added a "News and Interests" widget on the Taskbar (see blogpost):
How can I remove this Widget from the Taskbar?
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How do I make program/app widget start on startup if there is no exe file?
So, I am using this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/pomy/9nh2628qfznm?activetab=pivot:overviewtab .
I want it to start at startup but there is no feature in this. I tried making a link to the ...
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How to change background image of Rainmeter system.ini
Rainmeter is a useful tool for creating desktop widgets. I'm using system.ini skin, it's transparent but I want some opaque background.
The system.ini file has these lines:
[Rainmeter]
; This section ...
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I'm getting only a subset of widgets when I download Orange 3.23.1
I recently downloaded Orange 3.23.1 and am getting only a subset of the baseline widgets when I run the app. For example, I do not see the "Scatter Plot" widget in the Visualize group. Instead, I ...
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