Keep your Windows Live Messenger open in your gadget bar.
Among the innovations of
Windows Vista, one of the most eye-catching and relatively useful if it is well used is the Gadget bar. With it we will be able to have small applications always visible on the desktop.
Messenger Gadget is the one in charge of
making sure that you always have your messenger connected and available, so that you can quickly view it from the
gadget bar.
With
Windows Live Messenger installed, this
Messenger Gadget becomes a small window to see who is connected, their status and it easily allows you to update you status, without having to open the main program.
In this
gadget we will see all the necessary things to be always be connected and informed ,without unnecessary information like the publicity integrated in
Windows Live Messenger, out contacts avatars or the contacts search engine, in a small window.
Thanks to
Messenger Gadget, the
Windows Vista bar starts to have more utilities, because even though it is very eye-catching, many of the gadgets that it include per default don't have too much real utility and don't improve the user's experience and productivity.
Requirements: To be able to launch this program it is necessary to have Windows Live Messenger and Windows Vista/7 with Sidebar installed.