Windows 7 - Gadgets not Displaying Correctly in Windows 7 - Fix

You're welcome. Sorry the old version will no longer work for you.

Thank u very much for this info..... it solved the problem.....

You're most welcome Goldencomet.

Thanks a lot!!!

You're most welcome Deep Koradia, and welcome to Seven Forums.

For those of you who these solutions did not work for here is what finally worked for me! I found that if I created a new user account the gadgets worked fine so I knew it was an issue with the account settings. I found the folder where Windows stores the individual sidebar settings and discovered a settings.ini file in \app data\local\microsoft\windows sidebar for the user account. This controls the startup of the sidebar for the user. I terminated sidebar.exe using task manager, moved the file to the desktop (just in case it was needed) and then restarted sidebar (right click desktop and choose gadgets). I had no initial gadgets but when I added gadgets now they worked just fine. I then deleted the settings.ini from my desktop.

this does not work for me. i have tried all the things that said on the microsoft website and also ran the batch file from this thread, but still my gadgets do not work (default ones disappear/black squares/little white squares, also avast gadget has a pink outline and does not do anything). any ideas?

Hello Kikks, and welcome to Seven Forums.

As a test, create a new user account, and see how gadgets work in it.

thanks,
i created a standard user account with no password on default settings, and the gadgets do not work on it either

If what rspitzer posted above doesn't help, then the only way to fix this may be with a reinstall.