Ramsman wrote:
How do you install gadgets in W10?

All the web sources I've found talk about "once installed" or reviving
gadgets from W7/Vista, but I can't find out how to get a W10 gadget up
and running in the first place.

Am I missing something obvious here?

https://www.howtogeek.com/277161/how...ably-shouldnt/

"After installing 8GadgetPack or Gadgets Revived, you can just
right-click your Windows desktop and select "Gadgets". You’ll
see the same gadgets Window you’ll remember from Windows 7.
"

This implies the thing you download, is an EXE, an MSI, or the like
and you install it. That puts back the platform that supports
the HTML/JS gadgets.

So when I downloaded one of them, I got

8GadgetPackSetup.msi 23,244,220 bytes

You can right-click that and "install". The OS knows which file
types deserve elevation, and it will prompt for administrator rights.

Judging by the date, someone has already been re-scanning it.

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/a2...75ce/detection

If you examine the package with 7ZIP, it has "sidebar.exe", so
the kit does have executables in it. It's not all fluffy HTML
and JS in there.

Your computer is filled with attack surfaces. Some
are watched more carefully than others. That makes
it hard to estimate how "dangerous" such a thing is.
You may be tempted to "add" content to the base platform,
downloading HTML/JS from an unknown source. And maybe
Windows Defender doesn't have good protections for such
imports (makers of AV products, don't publicly admit either
way as to what they're good or bad at, because it gives
the black hats too much info to work with).

Paul