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SilverAzide
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Re: Gadgets 5.5.1 - inspired by AddGadgets.com Sidebar Gadgets

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qazserNOS wrote: January 13th, 2021, 5:55 pm I'm using "Network Meter". I just confirmed it by switching to the Pro variant and back. The Pro variant showed all zeroes for the counts but I didn't even check the config for it. When I switched back the Current count was reset but the Total count resumed. The Gadget version is of course 5.5.1.
OK, thanks for this info, it will help with debugging. I suspect that what you might be seeing is a numeric overflow error; when certain integer values overflow, the numbers show negative values. This appears to be something in Rainmeter, or perhaps some oddity with your network adapter software. It might not be related to your new motherboard directly, it may be the new network interface on that motherboard.

Here's what you can try. Leave the skin active for a while, or try copying a large amount of data over your network (> 2 or 4 gigs), until it starts showing negative values. Then, open the Rainmeter About screen and on the skin tab select the Network Meter, like this:
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Check the measures in the red boxes; you will see your negative values here. Screenshot this (showing all the NetIn and NetOut measures, including the ones not in the boxes), and post it here.
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Re: Gadgets 5.5.1 - inspired by AddGadgets.com Sidebar Gadgets

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SilverAzide wrote: January 13th, 2021, 7:40 pm OK, thanks for this info, it will help with debugging. I suspect that what you might be seeing is a numeric overflow error; when certain integer values overflow, the numbers show negative values. This appears to be something in Rainmeter, or perhaps some oddity with your network adapter software. It might not be related to your new motherboard directly, it may be the new network interface on that motherboard.

Here's what you can try. Leave the skin active for a while, or try copying a large amount of data over your network (> 2 or 4 gigs), until it starts showing negative values. Then, open the Rainmeter About screen and on the skin tab select the Network Meter, like this:

screenshot.jpg

Check the measures in the red boxes; you will see your negative values here. Screenshot this (showing all the NetIn and NetOut measures, including the ones not in the boxes), and post it here.
Thanks for the help. I'll get back to you when the negative values present themselves again. It might take a while, a couple of weeks maybe. I already downloaded over 12GB and uploaded over 5GB according to the Current count.

Before this issue I almost never reset the Current count and had it show values in the terabytes, matching the Total value.
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qazserNOS wrote: January 13th, 2021, 10:56 pm Thanks for the help. I'll get back to you when the negative values present themselves again. It might take a while, a couple of weeks maybe. I already downloaded over 12GB and uploaded over 5GB according to the Current count.

Before this issue I almost never reset the Current count and had it show values in the terabytes, matching the Total value.
The numbers should not overflow until you are in the exabyte range, so unless you are running a Google or Amazon server farm, you should never see that in your lifetime.... ;-) Just please don't reset the numbers once you see negative values so we can trace down where they are coming from. It would also help that once you see the negative numbers, in addition to the screenshot, post the contents of your Rainmeter.stats file.
This file is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.stats.
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I just got say OMG! I love Gadgets!
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Takes a little bit of time understanding... I've been trying to understand the setting, trying to find the correct location to turn off 'chime on the hour' annoying thing. the mute wasn't working. Spent hours scouring thru old posts and TG for that wiki write up!
Thank you SilverAzide!!!!! Superb Job! :thumbup:
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Re: Gadgets 5.5.1 - inspired by AddGadgets.com Sidebar Gadgets

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Hey, just a quick question, is there a way to adjust the fan speed bar/graph scale? For example my CPU fan tops at 1500rpm max, but that's about ~35% of the entire scale, and I'd like it to represent 100% instead.
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Vespers wrote: January 14th, 2021, 4:48 am I just got say OMG! I love Gadgets!
Takes a little bit of time understanding... I've been trying to understand the setting, trying to find the correct location to turn off 'chime on the hour' annoying thing. the mute wasn't working. Spent hours scouring thru old posts and TG for that wiki write up!

Thank you SilverAzide!!!!! Superb Job! :thumbup:
You are welcome! Glad you are enjoying the Gadgets! :welcome:
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VL4DST3R wrote: January 14th, 2021, 1:06 pm Hey, just a quick question, is there a way to adjust the fan speed bar scale? For example my CPU fan tops at 1500rpm max, but that's about ~35% of the entire scale, and I'd like it to represent 100% instead.
The fan speed will "self-adjust" the maximum value by default, but the good news is you can control this if you want. Click the wrench icon on CPU Meter to open the Settings skin, then click the Notepad icon to open the HWiNFO settings file. Scroll to the bottom of the file and find the variables FanCpuMax and FanMaxAutoUpdate. Set the values to the following:

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FanCpuMax=1500
FanMaxAutoUpdate=0
Save the file and refresh the CPU Meter and you should be all set. :thumbup:
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SilverAzide wrote: January 14th, 2021, 2:16 pm The fan speed will "self-adjust" the maximum value by default
Then.. did i f--- something up? Or is my mobo/fan reporting stuff weird? I haven't seen any option in the gadget itself to do something like this.

SilverAzide wrote: January 14th, 2021, 2:16 pm Set the values to the following:

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FanCpuMax=1500
FanMaxAutoUpdate=0
Save the file and refresh the CPU Meter and you should be all set. :thumbup:
Sigh, is there something your widget CAN'T do? XD I'm joking, thank you so much for this. Set the values myself and changed the

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FanCalcMethod
to 1. Works perfectly now!
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SilverAzide wrote: November 26th, 2020, 4:04 pm Hello! Glad you like the Gadgets! These are false positives. These Gadgets contain a common utility executable, RainRGB (the color picker tool), that sometimes gets incorrectly flagged. I think it is because it was written in a programming language that script-kiddies like to use to create malware. It is safe to use (it was written by one of the Rainmeter devs for the community to use), but you can delete it if you want. You'll just need to select colors some other way and enter the RGB values yourself. I may replace this utility with one created with Rainmeter at some point.

Not exactly perfect but not closed dialogue on the agenda (sorry for my english).
Not only me, but also many, I emphasize - many, like these gadgets, including because of the color.

In fact, we see a virus in gadgets:
Gadgest 5.5.1
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4a49f7b7ad822cf82340bdf08b69451c23f08074641349437f425ed9053ab39e/detection
Верхний процесс 5.2.0
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6b4fcc203f96bc3ec553ce3327aa17c99b61d121d4c951730ccb5574391ad122/detection

Neither the Rainmeter application,
nor the reputable developer @jsmorley,
nor the gadget developer @Dudebaker (Gadgets Additions 4.2.0) have malicious code in their products (or even suspicion of it).

And the question that worries all of us remains open:
Why have your gadgets been removed from the platform DeviantArt ?!

Conclusion:
Under such conditions, only the Rainmeter developers take on the expert responsibility and confirm the harmlessness and flawlessness of the code in gadgets for us, ordinary, non-technical users.
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Arbitria wrote: January 15th, 2021, 12:20 pm Not exactly perfect but not closed dialogue on the agenda (sorry for my english).
Not only me, but also many, I emphasize - many, like these gadgets, including because of the color.

In fact, we see a virus in gadgets:
Gadgest 5.5.1
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4a49f7b7ad822cf82340bdf08b69451c23f08074641349437f425ed9053ab39e/detection
Верхний процесс 5.2.0
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6b4fcc203f96bc3ec553ce3327aa17c99b61d121d4c951730ccb5574391ad122/detection

Neither the Rainmeter application,
nor the reputable developer @jsmorley,
nor the gadget developer @Dudebaker (Gadgets Additions 4.2.0) have malicious code in their products (or even suspicion of it).

And the question that worries all of us remains open:
Why have your gadgets been removed from the platform DeviantArt ?!

Conclusion:
Under such conditions, only the Rainmeter developers take on the expert responsibility and confirm the harmlessness and flawlessness of the code in gadgets for us, ordinary, non-technical users.
Sorry, there are no viruses in these as I've mentioned before. Something like 60+ AV engines scanned this and came up clean, but 2 or 3 are reporting false positives. This is mostly like due to including RainRGB, as I and others (including jsmorley) have mentioned before. Both the rmskin files mentioned in the reports include RainRGB, and this is the source of the false positive. Dudebaker's Gadgets Additions suite does not include RainRGB. The next version of the Gadgets will not use this tool anymore either; a purely Rainmeter-based color picker will be used instead.

Regarding DeviantArt, the Gadgets were removed, but they are back now. You can find them here. DeviantArt never gave me a clear answer why they were removed. I was able to reach their support people on 3 occasions and every person gave me a different answer why they were removed. I was told: 1) I was a spammer (not bloody likely), 2) the Gadgets contained links to porn (not possible and absurd), and 3) some nonsense about containing links to 3rd party for-profit websites (also absurd and not possible). I posted the exact same files again, and magically all is OK, so clearly DeviantArt's moderation standards leave much to be desired.

Finally, your conclusions are flawed. Because 2 or 3 minor and rarely-used AV products report a problem while 60+ (including top names like Microsoft, Kaspersky, McAfee, BitDefender, etc.) do not, do not imply in any way that a problem exists. It is much more likely that those AV products are poorly designed and their results should be ignored in the face of overwhelming evidence that no problem is present.

In addition, your statement "Under such conditions, only the Rainmeter developers take on the expert responsibility and confirm the harmlessness and flawlessness of the code in gadgets for us, ordinary, non-technical users" is incorrect. It is not possible to prove a negative; I can't prove to you that something does not exist. The burden of proof actually belongs to the accuser (that would be you). If you would like to prove this for yourself, rename the .rmskin files to .zip, delete the RainRGB executables from the zip, and then resubmit the zip files to VirusTotal. I believe you will find no issues with either of the skin files once RainRGB is removed.

(I'm not trying to be a jerk by telling you that you are the one that needs to do this. There is NOTHING I can do to prove to you there is NOT some virus present, only you can do that to prove it for yourself. You've taken the first step by submitting the files to VirusTotal, but you are not done yet...)
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