Gadgets won't load on startup? Also, old vista stickynotes?

Hi guys, just here with a slight hindrance to my windows 7 experience. I love Se7en, but for some reason my gadgets don't want to load on startup. Any ideas on how to fix this? I suppose I should try removing all my gadgets then loading them all again.

As an aside, does anyone know how to get the old stickynotes gadget from vista back? I know 7 brings its own stickynotes app which is cool and all, but I prefer the vista one due to it not taking up space on my taskbar and being slightly more aesthetically pleasing?

for the notes gadget you should be able to get it from anyone who has vista, if no either no one uploads it or you cant find it ill install vista on a VM and ill extract from there,

as for the other question about not loading at startup have you checked your msconfig and checked that sidebar is checked
all you have to do to check is to do that is press start and type the search program and files box msconfig and enter..
check on the startup tab and see if the sidebar is checked...
it should be called the entry : "Microsoft Operating System"
there should be two as one will be media center and the other is the sidebar....
if not then check back with us

there's good news and bad news you either have to get the stickynotes gadget from an already installed vista system...
you cant use the gadget folders on the w7 unless if i believe it gets repackaged again but thats against EULA (.....)
as for the alternative there should be one online in the gallery...

napilopez said:

Hi guys, just here with a slight hindrance to my windows 7 experience. I love Se7en, but for some reason my gadgets don't want to load on startup. Any ideas on how to fix this? I suppose I should try removing all my gadgets then loading them all again.

As an aside, does anyone know how to get the old stickynotes gadget from vista back? I know 7 brings its own stickynotes app which is cool and all, but I prefer the vista one due to it not taking up space on my taskbar and being slightly more aesthetically pleasing?

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Hello Napilopez,

You will need to have UAC turned on for Gadgets to work in Windows 7.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/286-gadgets-add-remove-desktop.html

Shawn

hey brink
you know this thread is almost 4 weeks old??

just letting you know.....

Yep.

Just in case someone else runs across it and needs a solution for it.

Sticky note gadget

How do you turn on UAC? What is UAC? I had VIsta and when I loaded WIN7 my sticky note gadget was no longer on the desk top. Is it possible to get it back to desk top???

Brink said:

napilopez said:

Hi guys, just here with a slight hindrance to my windows 7 experience. I love Se7en, but for some reason my gadgets don't want to load on startup. Any ideas on how to fix this? I suppose I should try removing all my gadgets then loading them all again.

As an aside, does anyone know how to get the old stickynotes gadget from vista back? I know 7 brings its own stickynotes app which is cool and all, but I prefer the vista one due to it not taking up space on my taskbar and being slightly more aesthetically pleasing?

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Hello Napilopez,

You will need to have UAC turned on for Gadgets to work in Windows 7.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/286-gadgets-add-remove-desktop.html

Shawn

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For anyone looking for a sticky notes solution I can recommend Stickies from Zhorn Software - a small and powerful freeware app which IMO is a better solution that either Vista or Windows 7 Gadgets - and it runs in the tray with UAC off

Stickies

Gadget Stiky PAD

I have some gadgets on my desk top and I have adjusted my UAC but I am unable to get my sticky notes back on the desk top after installation of WIN 7

Please help! IS the sticky pad unavailable for WIN 7 gadgets on desk top???"

Hello Mokpo, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Sticky Notes is not a gadget. Instead, you would just leave it running on your desktop to have it behave like a gadget though.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Error Message

Hi All

I hagve been recievin g the following error message on opening of WIN 7

"Can't openAslO.sys!!(2)"

What is the above all about and how do I correct it??

Mokpo,

There are 3 ASUS programs below that seem to be related to this. If you have them installed, then uninstall them.

1. PC Probe II
2. EPU Six Engine
3. ASUS AI Suite

Also look in your startup programs list for a process entry named aaCenter. If there, either disable or remove it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Manual load required for Gadgets on Windows startup?

I have the same problem as the original poster, and I've spent hours trying to fix problem:

Sidebar is checked in MSCONFIG, and is running in Task Manager, and my UAC settings are correct, but when I restart my computer, the Gadgets are not present on my desktop. Does Sidebar.exe even load the gadget GUI on startup?

I feel like when I first used this PC as new that the Gadgets would automatically load at startup, and maybe I was messing with something and changed some configuration settings for Sidebar (but I may be confusing restart with hibernate...)

Can gadgets load on desktop at startup (By that I mean the actual GUI, not the executible file)? If not, it seems pretty pointless to use gadgets such as the "Control System" gadget, because it would be much faster to shut down or restart from the start menu than to load gadget menu, load the control system gadget, then shut down or restart from that (after unlocking the controls in the first place).

If gadgets can't load on startup, then I don't even want to use them. Prz help!

Hello, it's my first post here.

I've come across a registry workaround the other day, concerning the gadget loading issue.
I cannot remember the link but I remember the tweak so here it is..
(This reg tweak is all about Adding a new registry value NOT changing anything, so you have nothing to fear. you can undo it anytime if you want.)

1. Start> type regedit, press Enter.
2.Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Sidebar
**>>If there is already a Key named "Settings" under "Sidebar" then skip 3 and 4 and go to
step 5.
3. Right click on Sidebar and select New > Key
4.Name your new key as "Settings" (without the quotes).
5.Having your new key (Settings) highlighted at the left pane, go to the right pane and right click at a blank area and select New> DWORD (32-bit) Value.
6. Name the new value as "AllowElevatedProcess" (without the quotes).
7. Right click on it and select "Modify"
8.Give to "Value Data" Box the value: 1
9.Press OK, close all windows, close registry editor, and Restart your computer.
10. That's supposed to do the job.

Give it a try.

Now, I will ask for your help for a relative question..
Really... where do the extra (manually installed) gadgets go?
I mean.. they aren't found at "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets" where the default gadgets are.
So where are they been installed?? In which folder??? Anyone knows???

Thank you!

They are in your user folder, in a location which is hidden by default..

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets

Thank you for this!!

So what i did with this was:
I moved all my gadgets from the User\....\gadgets\ folder to Program files\....\gadgets\ (I used cut-paste) then I opened the Gadgets panel and re-added them. Now with the UAC completely off, all the gadgets load but i still have to test it for a bigger period of time to see if they will load after every boot.

Went through all the posts, found this one and it works. The screen DPI is set above 110 %. I had mine set at 120 to facilitate reading fonts. Set customized setting to 110 % and all the gadgets you tried to include will appear. Thanks to whomever for the input.

here is the hot fix from MS that works the best for me http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979164