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Gadget shows Wireless signal, Access point name, Wireless IP, External IP, CPU load, Free RAM memory, System Drives utilization, Laptop battery level and estimated time of battery life.
Introduce smooth animation and complete customization - you control exactly what items you want to see, animation speed, color pattern, etc.
Greetings goes to iSlayer for original gadgets that inspired me.
Gadget use PHP script that is hosted on this website as well as whatismyip.org to identify your IP address. This can be changed in gadget settings - any webpage that is showing your external IP can be used - gadget will find the IP address on that page.
What’s New in 1.2:
- Fix: Freezing/Hang issue on IE9
- Fix: Massive CPU and memory usage improvemets
- New: System Drives added
- New: New Version notification
- New: many minor improvements
What’s New in 1.1
- Fix: IE9 transparency bug
- Fix: Minor memory leak fixed
- Fix: Enable Show IP whithout Signal
- New: Skin custom color and fade
- New: Redesigned graphics
- New: New Properties page
- Minor optimizations
More Screenshots: one, two, two
Tags: battery, cpu, drives, memory, network, sidebar, wireless
October 13th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Great job with your gadget!!. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time: clean, very customizable and shows (or hides) almost all information you need to know in one gadget. Just needs network traffic (like network meter, bars like CPU usage), HDD info and the option to make it bigger.
Also, the animation is deffinitely a plus!! Congrats!.
October 16th, 2010 at 6:51 am
Hey Pavel, Great gadget! I’ve noticed some compatibilty issues since instlling IE9, the gadget now shows a white border, not transparent. im running windows 7 home premium 64 bit…
George
October 16th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Hello Marco,
Thank you for your feedback. I will consider network traffic and HDD info if I have free time someday.
Hello George,
Thank you for letting me know about compatibility issue with IE9. I am sorry you have lost transparency - I will attempt to fix this someday. No promises as I am overloaded.
Cheers.
December 25th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Hi Pavel,
Great ipK Combo gadget,and works great!
But,as time nears for the release of IE 9 maybe You should address the issue of white border around gadget’s edges.
Other than that… perfect gadget
Alien
December 25th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I really like your gadget but I agree with Marco, just need the network traffic
January 10th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
your gadget is great and super great .
i want to ask u about your photo gallery, did u do that alone? it’s your work?
if yes, i can’t describe this work, u have to sale it to the biggest companies.
March 11th, 2011 at 8:10 am
firstly thanks for a great gadget,the IPK combo is probably my most looked at gadget,but just recently im getting ‘error 12007′,can you help me resolve this,im running win7 premium 64bit,thank you
March 11th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Hello Lea,
Looks like this error occurs when gadget can not resolve DNS of server it is configured to check external IP address. If you recently changed gadget settings - please check server name, if not then check if IE can open the script from gadget option. Cheers
March 17th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
hey man, could you please update the gadget, so it does work with IE9 installed? actaully it works, but there is white border around the gadget instead of transparent
March 20th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Hello Guys!
I am happy to announce that a new version 1.1 is released that is fixing IE9 transparancy issue and delivering more features for instance picking ANY color of skin! Should be available at Live Gallery shortly
Pavel
March 20th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Hi… When will the 1.1 update be available for download ? The 1.0 version is all that I can get …
Brilliant update. THANKS
March 21st, 2011 at 8:38 am
Hello,
Update is yet pending verification by Microsoft. I expect it to be completed within a day. Stay tunned. Cheers!
Pavel
March 21st, 2011 at 11:52 pm
Aaaah… thanks for that… this waiting is killing me!
Come on Microsoft… verify it already!
Put it up on your site or email it to us impatient slaves to your gadget!
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March 22nd, 2011 at 9:42 am
Wait nomore!
It is verified by MS and available for your download. Happy using! 
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:51 am
Ooooh. Today IS a happy day. I am getting it right away.
Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you.
Very very much.
March 22nd, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Pavel…. man!!!!!! what else can I say… simplicity and perfection in one! great work and fine but subtle improvements on ver 1.1
Keep up the great work man! Among tons of useless garbage of gadgets,Your creations are shining like the diamonds!!! Stay sharp and be good as You always were!
Best of wishes,
Predrag
March 30th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Great work on this gadget! But am I missing something? The description says it can display the Internal IP and the External IP, but the gadget only displays the External IP and the Wireless IP.
Since I’m using the gadget on a desktop is there a way I can get it to display the Internal IP?
March 30th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Hello Randy,
Good point. I am afraid I refered internal ip to wireless ip and there is no way to display actual internal ip on desktop. I will consider adding this in next version. Cheers
March 30th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
I’ll look forward to the next version! Thanks!
April 1st, 2011 at 2:46 am
thanks for fixing the transparacy issue, but for some reason im having problems shuting down. everything closes but the gadget i always have to force the shut down its getting quite anoying.
April 1st, 2011 at 7:30 am
I really like your gadget, but i have a problem when i use version 1.1. It’s hard to shut down the computer, i must do it twice before the gadget close.
April 8th, 2011 at 7:02 am
Same issue with the shut down in windows 7 64 bit. I have been killing sidebar.exe manually prior to shutting down….other than that, i would love to see a few other options if possible.
1. overall CPU usage in addition to each processor
2. Ability to chang ram from how much is left, to how much is being used.
3. network usage bar up/down
love the gadget though, i use this insted of 3 others.
April 12th, 2011 at 11:56 am
eres grande man =)
April 27th, 2011 at 8:07 am
Most excellent dude!
April 29th, 2011 at 6:24 am
i see that the sidebar.exe shut down error seems to occur only if ie9 is installed and happens in both 1.0 and 1.1……any updates on this issue? i love the gadget but having to kill sidebar every shutdown is getting bothersome.
April 30th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Superb gadget.
However, when I’m not connected to the Web, iPK Combo 1.1 “hangs” windows when trying to shutdown the PC (Win7-64b). I have to kill the task to shut down the PC. Any idea how to fix this? (P.S.: Working nicelly if connecting to Internet…)
April 30th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Oups, finally, it is hanging the shutdown process, being, or not, on the Internet…
May 1st, 2011 at 7:25 pm
hi Pavel,firstly thanks for a great app which iv been using for nearly a year now without trouble+its in my top 3 of most used apps,in the last few mths i keep getting ‘ERROR 12002′ displaying on the gadget,even with the update i still get it occasionally,can you shed any light on this error,thanks,Pruchi
May 14th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
I have the same shutdown issue as others, i.e. the gadget seems to cause the system to hang on shutdown. I’m running Windows 7 64-bit and using version 1.1. Other than that, love the gadget. Thanks.
May 22nd, 2011 at 5:15 pm
It’s a shame to see my number one gadget being useless since I have to force shutdown almost every time. I don’t use it anymore but just for the record, IPK Combo had been adorning my desktop ever since 2009 without a single lapse. Please fix it.
May 22nd, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Windows 7 64-bit
May 24th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
To all of you folks who is suffering hang issue on shutdown, etc with iPK Combo 1.1 running.
This issue is only triggered under Internet Ecplorer 9. This is happening due to the way DOM garbage collector has been implemented in IE9. Due to animation and constant DOM manipulation in the gadget there, IE9 is trying to clean some memory used previously by DOM elements on unloading the page. This is a known problem to me and I have already spent a lot of time optimizing and rewriting entire code to use memory and DOM objects much more efficient to mitigate this hang on close issue, but so far I don’t have complete fix. Version 1.2 will be delivering improvements in this area and some more features as well. I feel your pain!!!
Stay tuned, thanks!
June 6th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Thanks man!!! I will be looking forward to it.
June 6th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Hello Guillermo, folks who is suffering hang on close issue,
Just wanted to update you on the progress: I have finally got to the point when gadget is working stable on IE 9. I have re-done almoust entire code on performance optimizing and anyway come to conclusion that I can’t beat the way IE 9 is doing it’s cleanup on closure, so I proceed with regular gadget reloads, so that IE 9 can perform its cleanups on the same regular basis when its not much to clean yet and thus is completing instantly. The refresh should be barely noticable, so I hope solution for hang issue will not irretate. Significant cpu and memory utilization improvements are implemented while searching for this issue resolution, so its a bonus.
I am planning to add check for a new version and at least disk space utilization before I release an update, so that new features are also includes.
Stay tuned folks, I am spending time on gadget on a daily basis, so its going to be soon. Cheers
June 19th, 2011 at 3:09 am
Cool. I’ll be visiting this site weekly. Keep us updated on your progress.
July 1st, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Hey
Sounds exciting !
I cannot wait….
July 2nd, 2011 at 9:15 am
Hello Folks, I have submitted new version to Live Gallery a week ago already, but it is still pending approval… Arrrrrr. Can’t wait either when you guys can see it!
July 12th, 2011 at 10:24 am
could you make youre sidebar compatible with aida64 readouts and tweak it to look like the asus ai suit 2 epic look,peace
July 12th, 2011 at 10:48 am
I don’t plan to read values from Aida. What are the counters you are referring to? I have not seen Asus monitor, as I don’t have Asus GPU, so I don’t know what exact style you are refering to.
However I do have plans for various background skins in future release
July 12th, 2011 at 11:57 am
the link to show you how the ai suit 2 looks
-.-’
pureoverclock.com/images/review/motherboards/asus_m4e/asus_m4e_aisuite2.jpg
and here the readings aida64 gives
img703.imageshack.us/img703/8637/aida64readout.png
July 15th, 2011 at 9:48 am
This is awesome!!! I only have one gadget and that’s IPK Combo, I’ve been waiting for so long. Your updated gadget Rocks!
July 16th, 2011 at 4:22 am
Could you make black back ground, user changeable to another Color
July 16th, 2011 at 7:59 am
Changing background is in my todo list. This is tricky due to transparancy and my last prototype had issues so I postponed this feature untill I come up to better design that is capable to chage color of background and foreground, being resisable and transparant.
August 16th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Wow… thanks for the update. This is now purfect and the ONLY reason the sidebar is worth anything.
This should come with every windows 7 install.
Thanks again!
August 25th, 2011 at 9:39 am
so any news on the latest build pavel?
August 25th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Hello Gandab,
I am confused on what you are refering to as the latest build 1.2 is out that has fixed all reported issues and introduced wanted features. Have you tried version 1.2 already or are you looking for even newer version already? If so - what is your expectation on the changes? Cheers
August 25th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
well do you not remember what we talked about over email?
about the ai sui2 gui layout
i asked you if you could change the background to look like it to have different skin presets etc remember?-.-’
August 25th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Oh, sorry, I was short on memory -_-
Just skin lift is not enough base to start new version development. I am waiting for more reviews and suggestions to work on, so that this is not your private version
August 25th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
xD no problem i understand well you heard the guy everybody common bring the suggestions and reviews on what are you waiting for ? -.-’
August 31st, 2011 at 1:58 pm
ey pavel just pm me a private version for christ sakes
or ill be waiting till i grow old and wrinkly -.-’
you got my email , work youre magic baby xD
September 9th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
It’s the greatest gadget I’ve ever used. I’d appreciate if it had network meter for upload & download speed.
Anyway, maybe it is the worlds best ever made windows gadget!!!!
September 23rd, 2011 at 10:57 am
Great gadget, great tool… very nice
But….
—1) I am using it on a desktop, so there is no Wireless IP, but there is still a Local IP which does not show - I think it should, instead of the Wireless IP showing “Acquiring IP”, it should show the local network ip like 10.0.0.16
—2) I would like a combined CPU usage in 1 value, so 3% CPU usage, not 0% 1% 4% 0% showing up, just 1 line for CPU usage, an average
This is about my 4th CPU monitor gadget [in the past hour of searching], and it is the best, works on my Windows 7 nicely, nice colors… I wish i could move it all the way to the edge of screen in top right, right now the control for the gadget doesn’t let me go all the way right or it goes out of screen…
September 23rd, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Hello Robert,
Thank you for constructive feedback - fair enough.
Per items:
1) This is a very valid point. It has been on my todo list for a while already. Sidebar API is not providing this data, so I need to use something external from sidebar to get access to this data. I have been looking for the best techniqe to use that will be copyright friendly and low on resource usage. So far gadget is using purely what sidebar API can provide. Recently I had a fresh look at this and I believe I am close to start get benefit from Performance Counters data. I will certainly include regular internal IP.
2) Very good feature fequest. Such an obvious thing had not been thinked of yet. Its a shame. Will definately be on next release.
As of putting it in the corner - not sure if this can be done. I have not seen control on this. Have you seen this ability in any other gadget? If yes - which one?
September 23rd, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Hello Robert,
Thank you for constructive feedback - fair enough.
Per items:
1) This is a very valid point. It has been on my todo list for a while already. Sidebar API is not providing this data, so I need to use something external from sidebar to get access to this data. I have been looking for the best techniqe to use that will be copyright friendly and low on resource usage. So far gadget is using purely what sidebar API can provide. Recently I had a fresh look at this and I believe I am close to start get benefit from Performance Counters data. I will certainly include regular internal IP.
2) Very good feature fequest. Such an obvious thing had not been thinked of yet. Its a shame. Will definately be on next release.
As of putting it in the corner - not sure if this can be done. I have not seen control on this. Have you seen this ability in any other gadget? If yes - which one?
September 24th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Pavel,
Your gadget kicks ass.
The only improvement I could see is allow LARGER size. I have set this up on the desktop of my elderly father who has 2 cataracts and can’t see small icons. Knowing the IP is essential for him to report it to me so I can log into his desktop remotely and help him out. That saves me the cost of setting him up w/ a static external IP.
Another improvement is to add a clipboard script with an onclick event so one would not have to highlight the text and rightclick to copy it. Since clipboard script are intrusive and some people don’t like them you may make this a configurable option.
Angel
September 27th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
well if you add in the single value instead of usage per thread atleast make it optional since enthusiasts like me need to know the usage of each thread very helpfull .
and about the rearranging your gadget its easier than youd believe
just press shift and move it to where you want with your mouse
October 4th, 2011 at 7:13 am
BAD NEWS!!
This is no longer on the windows gadgets download list…. I need it for my new computer. can you please upload to this site, or another download location?
October 5th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Hello Johnny,
Thank you for reporting about Live Gallery being retired now. I have changed dowlnoad link, so that you can download now.
Hello Angel,
Thank you. I am adding your requests to my list
Hello Gandab
I have implemented a setting to show CPU per unit for enthusiasts like you
October 5th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
thanks bro and keep up the awesome work , hope you get around to implement that one request i had about being able to select the gadget skin to a nice stylish red etc ,
rock on !
October 26th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
it would be nice to be able to select power plan by clicking on battery meter and getting popup meniu with options
December 14th, 2011 at 4:13 am
hey hows it been goin bro any news?
btw got a request is there a possibility for you to add in the possibility for youre gadget to show hdd space left from its total, including support for external usb storages so it detects when a device gets removed or not ,adding or subtracting that device from the gadget automatically would be a real great addition to youre gadget bro and most welcome
dont forget to add hdd icons for external hdds and cd/dvd icons for external cd/dvd drives , peace
p.s: merry christmas and a happy new year in advance ey? xD
December 16th, 2011 at 5:51 am
forget my previous request just found out that sushi driveinfo does that job splendid no need for you to implement it
btw hows that skin request i made comin along?