Read your GMail from the Windows Vista desktop

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Reading your Google Mail correspondence from your Windows Vista PC desktop

There’s an extra cool way to be access your GMail account right from your Microsoft Windows Vista desktop sidebar. Using the GMail Reader sidebar gadget for Windows Vista, you can be notified on new items in your GMail inbox as well as browse and access the last 20 mails you received.

The gadget is available to download from the Windows Live Gallery.

Here’s how you configure the gadget:

  • First, download and install the gadget.
  • The gadget will appear in your desktop.


  • Right click the gadget and click Options.
  • Fill in your GMail account details and click Login.
  • Once your login is succesful , click OK.

In case you would like to customize the sound played when new mail arrives, proceed as following:

  • Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the following path: <your_user_name>/appdata/local/microsoft/windows sidebar/gadgets/GMail Gadget.
  • Placeyour own .WAV file in the folder. Rename your old sound file from NOTIFY to NOTIFYOLD and then name your new sound file NOTIFY.

Important Note: As the GMail password you provide is kept in Clear Text – please make sure you don’t install the gadget on public computers!

[tags] Windows Vista, Gmail, Live Gallery, Gadgets, Vista [/tags]



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  1. Links this Saturday says:
    May 12, 2007 at 6:31 am

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  2. abhishek bhatnagar says:
    May 15, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    gadget looks quite gud…lets see how it works..thanx for sharing.

  3. Web 2.0, PC Tweaks @ AVirtualExit.com » Blog Archive » GMail Gadgets for your Windows Vista Sidebar says:
    May 15, 2007 at 9:43 pm

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  5. Wozza says:
    July 9, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    Read your Gmail from the Windows Vista desktop.

    This is no longer available from Windows Live Gallery.
    Anyone know how else I can dowload it?
    Cheers.

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  8. ANDSENS says:
    August 26, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    FOUND IT!
    http://www.thoosje.com/vista-sidebar-gadgets-mail-contacts.html
    I think Microsoft or the creator took it of Windows Gallery because of copyright issues, I at least assume that’s the reason.

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