Hot, hot, hot! Adding a Windows Vista Temperature Gadget

With hot days baking many cities around Australia this week, it’s never been more useful to find out just how hot it really is outside.

If you have Windows Vista, having the current temperature delivered to your desktop can be as easy as 1,2, 3 (4) using the built in Windows Sidebar and temperature gadget.

What’s more, once you learn how to do this for the temperature, there are lots of other goodies you can have delivered to your desktop.

• Click on Start, type ‘Windows Sidebar’ and hit Enter
• Click on the small ‘+’ sign that appears in the top right corner of your screen



• Drag the ‘Weather’ icon from the box that appears to the greyed area on the right of your screen and release



• Move your mouse over the icon weather box that appears, click the spanner and type in your location (e.g. “Melbourne, Australia”) and press OK.