Bring the Windows 7 gadgets on Windows 8 with this free app

Feb 27, 2014 10:52 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has removed the gadgets in Windows 8, but there are still a number of ways to bring them back on the modern operating system if you can’t really live without them.

8GadgetPack is one of the applications that can do that for you with just a few clicks, bringing a total of 49 popular widgets on the Windows 8 desktop at absolutely no cost.

Version 10 brings quite a lot of improvements and fixes the existing bugs, which means that in case you’ve been experiencing issues with the previous builds, this is the right time to update.

For example, the new version adds skin support in Clipboarder and fixes a bug that prevented it to open clipboards in Modern app programs, introduces a few new gadgets and updates the one that haven’t received improvements in a while.

What’s more, the application fixes a bug that caused some gadgets to fail to load on startup, while also addressing issues that made some built-in gadgets to appear multiple times in Task Manager.

Of course, gadgets could really come in handy if you’re trying to make the Windows 8 desktop more user-friendly or restore Windows 7 usability, so download 8GadgetPack 10 right now to see what it brings new.