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<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Archiving |extensions={{ext|gadget}} |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/x-windows-gadget}} |developed by=<a href="/index.php?title=Microsoft&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Microsoft (page does not exist)">Microsoft</a> |released=200...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Archiving<br /> |extensions={{ext|gadget}}<br /> |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/x-windows-gadget}}<br /> |developed by=[[Microsoft]]<br /> |released=2007<br /> }}<br /> A '''Windows Gadget''' file, also known as a '''Windows Sidebar Gadget''', is the format used to distribute gadgets used by the [[Windows Sidebar]], available in [[Windows Vista]], then renamed [[Windows Gadget Platform]] in [[Windows 7]] and [[Windows Server 2008]].<br /> <br /> It is either a [[ZIP]] or [[CAB]] archive which always contains a manifest describing the gadget, named &lt;code&gt;gadget.xml&lt;/code&gt;. The archive also contains [[HTML]], [[CSS]], [[JavaScript]] files that power the gadget, as it is not much more than a web page with some extra [[ActiveX]] APIs.<br /> <br /> Gadgets are installed (extracted) under two directories:<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;%SYSTEMROOT%\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets&lt;/code&gt; (all users)<br /> * &lt;code&gt;%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets&lt;/code&gt; (only this user)<br /> <br /> Because the APIs allow, among many other things, arbitrary command execution through [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/sidebar/system-shell-execute &lt;code&gt;System.Shell.execute&lt;/code&gt;], Microsoft published [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityAdvisories/2013/2719662 a security advisory] in 2012 that recommends disabling gadgets entirely.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/gadgetplatform/windows-gadget-platform-portal Windows Gadget Platform documentation]<br /> * [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/sidebar/-sidebar-entry Windows Sidebar documentation]</div>

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