If you use desktop gadgets, Windows 7 comes with a small complement of them. You can download more from the Windows personalization gallery and other sites.
Normally downloaded gadgets require to be installed for each profile. Installing a gadget makes it immediately active.
This is relevant only if you fill these prerequisites: you have multiple user profiles defined, you have downloaded additional desktop gadgets, and you want these extra gadgets to be available for all user profiles.
Step 1: Log in to an administor profile, install the desired gadgets.
Step 2: Close the newly installed gadgets.
Step 3: Open an Explorer window, navigate to "C:\Users\{login ID}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets". Each installed gadget is materialized by a subfolder. Copy those you wish to share between profiles to a backup location (such as your desktop).
Step 4: Uninstall the gadgets(*). Close the gadget list window.
Step 5: Open an Explorer window, navigate to "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Shared Gadgets". Copy the saved gadget folders there.
Your downloaded gadgets are now available in the gadget list window for every profile. You can delete the backup copy if you wish.
(*) To uninstall a gadget, open the gadget list window, right-click the gadget, select "uninstall". Some gadgets' files will not be unlocked when you close the gadget. In order to unistall them, you need to log off and back on first.
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