Widgets and software installations

I would like to know if widgets running in the background as they do can cause problems when installing software applications or is the OS smart enough to disable them automatically when software (requiring no other applications to be running during installation) is being installed. At the moment I disabled all the widgets individually but don't know if I turn them back on if I should turn them all off everytime I install any new app on my machine.
Thanks for any info on the subject.

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> Just starting interest in widgets. Googling around has
lead me to ask: Do
> I
> need to worry about widgets and accessibilty? In other
words, will using
> widgets make my sites inaccessable for some? Should I
use them? What is
> your
> opinion?
Widgets such as Adobe's Spry widgets, or our PVII Widgets,
are very
accessible. Problems arise when you use Ajax, which is
totally inaccessible
"out of the box". To ascertain how accessible something is,
try viewing it
with script disabled or on an iPhone.
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