Extentrix Gadget for Microsoft Remote Desktop is a Remote desktop client gadget that runs on Windows Vista. It runs on top of Vista Sidebar Engine and provides an easy to use interface to create, edit and delete your connections.

As you use your computer to access information, perform tasks, and interact with software, you may at times feel like you're facing information overload. You have to open a web browser just to check the weather, open an application to view your calendar, and open a calculator program just to add up a few numbers. Now, with Windows Sidebar and its associated mini-applications called gadgets, the specific information you need is at your fingertips.

Each gadget is developed using HTML and script. Gadgets also have access to extra information about itself and Windows when the HTML is run as a gadget. This allows a gadget to interact with Windows files and folders, such as showing images from the users’ pictures folder or displaying information about a wireless connection. Displaying settings dialogs and storing those settings is also possible by using script.

Windows Sidebar is a pane on the side of the Microsoft Windows Vista desktop where you can keep your gadgets organized and always available. Windows Sidebar makes great use of the space on widescreen monitors and also works smoothly on standard displays.

Extentrix Gadget for Microsoft Remote Desktop takes the user the ability to manage his/her RDP connections; all his/her connections will be displayed in a menu in this nice gadget. The user can do the following:

Create a new connection: when the user creates a new connection, an .rdp file will created with the name that the user chooses, and it will be filled with the settings options that he/she chooses.

Edit a connection’s settings: when the user chooses one of his/her connections and changes its settings, the new settings will be overwritten to the same file.

Delete a connection: the user can delete a connection and this rdp file will be deleted.

Run a connection: if the user double clicks on one of the connections, the remote desktop session will be created.