The creature you need is the 'Amnesty' gadget generator. It was designed to work with Google Gadgets and put them on your Vista sidebar, but it works with W7 64 bit, and WCG widget code

http://www.amnestywidgets.com/GeneratorWin.html

Copy the code from WCG Widget and paste it into Amnesty. Don't bother searching for a Google gadget.

In the WCG HTML you'll see pixel sizes for WCG, put these also into the height and width boxes in Amnesty, give gadet a name and save.

When you call up Windows gadgets you'll see the your new WCG gadget & 'atom' symbol, click and WCG widget will appear on your desktop.

A brilliant tip, hardnews, an soon ported to the Start Here widgets topic. The web-developer has acknowledged the [not exactly working everywhere] functionality of the present widget and at some point said to come up with a http code version. Since, we have e.g. SNURK's graph sig [below], which can be posted anywhere that takes an image. Updated daily.

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edit: @hardnews, have copied your post, near verbatim, to http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Widgets#Limitations. If you wish, you may edit registered, or anonymous. The Start Here FAQ index already points to this wiki page, with more tips on how to include the widget in web pages.

OK, so my widget is getting somewhat out of date. The WCG web site says I have 17 days, 18 hours of total run time, yet my widget still stubbornly displays 13 days & 15 hours. So I'm looking for some kind of refresh interval. Looking at the HTML for the widget, I don't see an obvious one, as for the parameters I see "/getDynamicImage.do?memberName=MyNameHere&mnOn=true&stat=3&imageNum=3&rankOn=false&projectsOn=false&special=false" frameborder="0" name="di" scrolling="no" width="125px" height="176px".

Is one of those a hidden refresh interval, your highness? And if not, any idea how long it will take to update? I think ideally I'd have it refresh once an hour, but I dunno if that's too much of a burden on the WCG servers... I don't want to bring the whole project to it's knees for a silly refresh interval...
Thanks,
Jeff

p.s. I don't have access to Krugerrands at the moment, so I'm really hoping you take checks. And, um, don't cash the check for awhile, please. A really long while. And don't make any large purchases-- or even small ones really-- on the expected income.
:-)

Per help: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewSearch.do?searchString=widget the widget updates whenever the stats update, which for the team part is about 1.5 hours after the nightly update starting at 00:06 UTC time. My Grid updates every 12 hours.

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Not even going to try and understand. All depends on where the Windows Desktop Gadget is pointing. E.g. I got a plug-in for the web browser (not maintained but hacked enough to meet my needs) that lurks on data at http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/get_user.php?cpid= where cpid= has mine suffixed and pulls Total credit and RAC hourly from the different projects I'm on. Then I can see in the status bar if things move, the FF web browser being my portal to pretty much anything I do. At any rate, when it says "data unavailable", it means the WCG BOINC server is not on line. Yesterday evening it was not for a while, and some members noticed.

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