Comments on: System Control 1.3 Update

By: The Staff

The Staff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:05:54 +0000

Chris, head to the gadget settings -> Options -> Buttons and you can re-order and disable / enable anything you’d like.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:22:53 +0000

Hey guys, Great App, would like to see the ability to re-order the buttons, more for the order I use them.

Thanks

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:07:55 +0000

Hi,
I have a laptop is there a button to turn off the display or darken the screen when we are away at a meeting or conference?
Thanks

By: Lars

Lars — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:47:09 +0000

Hi,
very nice gadget but what about a translation into german? I would help to translate.

Greetz, Lars

By: The Staff

The Staff — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:40:05 +0000

Ross, the buttons were modeled after the XP buttons, but we’ll consider orange as a possible color.

The sleep / hibernate functionality is system variable. We have more details in the support page: http://www.buildagadget.com/Support-Pro-Gadget-SC-WS.php#Topic2

By: Ross Snowden

Ross Snowden — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:45:10 +0000

Everything with System Control seems to work well so far. I *would* like to see an orange coloured button for the sleep/hibernate button – perhaps orange. It should be a least a different colour than the Log Off button (yellow).

Is there a way to define the sleep/hibernate button to do one or the other? I think for me, it actually hibernates the system (not sleep).

By: RD

RD — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19:21 +0000

Since you asked ‘anyone’…. UNinstall it -all-. Re-download it (may have a corrupted download), and re-install.

By: Tony Shiu

Tony Shiu — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:52:59 +0000

I can’t seem to get System Control 1.3 installed. I am currently running version 1.2. When I click on Systemcontrol.gadget, it asks to if I want to run the file. Then nothing… Does not show up in my gadgets list. Anyone have any ideas??

By: The Staff

The Staff — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:49:55 +0000

Thanks RD, that really helps us out a ton.

By: RD

RD — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:39:46 +0000

Hmmm, is right … I loaded up 40-some gadgets that I’d been collecting, and only found a handful that didn’t get along with UAC (like Blister HDD, and Absolute Futurity’s Speed Test, and the newest version 2 of SayIt! which now has more options to save. The first version of SayIt! does work with UAC, but few options to set.). Found one gadget (NewMail, email checker) that worked worse withOUT UAC.

There’s a Sidebar Blog on Microsoft that I was glancing through… has a nifty description of how to put your sidebar/gadgets on a USB stick to run elsewhere. Anyway, there aren’t many gadgets interactive enough to have these UAC troubles, it seems… a lot of gadgets are pretty ’static’, just displaying things, etc. Somewhere I was reading about getting error feedback on gadgets.

The Blister author also suggested elevating sidebar.exe to ‘run as administrator’… that actually helps … buildagadgets work fine if you run sidebar as administrator… I don’t know if that’s ‘abusable’ if you stop trying out new gadgets.

With Vista Home Premium, my user account -is- in the “administrators” group, but apparently it’s also in “approval mode” so we get dinged by UAC anyway.

I see some discussion that gadgets are supposed to be able to write to files in the ‘user profile’… one gadget (NewMail) put their data subdirectory in Users\(owner)\Appdata\Roaming. I can set NewMail’s options but it’s not actually returning a new email count even though seemingly connecting to the email server.

Good luck. As I mentioned previously, I used to be able to run XMOnlineRadio gadget just fine. Then something changed… in Vista.