If you double-click the gadget when installing it, it will snap to the the right-hand side of the screen, thus replicating the side-bar.
I don't have a running copy of Windows 7 in front of me right now but there is probably a way to make them stay on top etc etc.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day, and pay the owner for permission to come to work, and when I get done, my manager would kill me and dance about on my grave singing Hallelujah.
And you try and tell the young coders today that and they won't believe you!!
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android