Gadgets have become unstable

Win 7/64 Home premium.

Lately, I've noticed that my gadgets will disappear from time to time. I can regain them by going to Windows Features and disabling the gadget platform, rebooting, then re-enabling gadget platform and rebooting yet again. Simply rebooting the system without touching the gadget platform will not repair the gadget display problem.

But that seems like a work-around for some unknown-to-me issue at this point.

Anyone else seeing this?

Good idea.

I recently bought and installed Hitman Pro but don't recall if that might have been the trigger point or not when this all began.

I'll run the sfc check. I've used SFC before but don't recall losing any customizations. ??

Ah. those kind of customizations. No worries there.

Gadgets have again disappeared and turning the Gadget Platform off and back on with reboots in between is no longer bringing them back. UAC is on the lowest setting (not off).

Any suggestions how to get them back?

Thanks for your response. I haven't had time yet to try out your suggestion.

Interestingly, when I checked the computer this morning, it had restarted after overnight updates were installed... and all my gadgets were back. Yes, the computer had been restarted multiple times before, to no avail.

Computers!

I hesitate to mark this as solved since it appears to be a recurring issue. But for now, the issue seems to be solved. I just wish I knew what fixed it.

Update. A reboot a couple of days later and the gadgets disappeared again. After a few days, another reboot occurred and the gadgets reappeared. Cyberspace must be a puzzling place to live.