IE11 Appears not to support gadgets. What are the alternatives ?

I had a second look and noticed that the affected gadgets use certain font. According to my opinion the problem is caused by IE11 making some fonts display incorrectly when in a higher DPI setting. This affected some other functions like disabling the Outlook spell-check in certain configurations, etc. So there should be a fix from Microsoft sometime in the future that would address these issues and hopefully that should fix the gadgets too.
As for making gadgets bigger-that's pretty difficult. You should play around first with the css file-that will enlarge the "glass" area around the gadget. Then move to the js file. The scripts that instruct how the gadget should be displayed are at the end of the file: undocked & docked state of the gadgets. I played around with that and the result was pretty ugly. So I would recommend to use the gadgets the way they are for the time being as a fix from Microsoft addressing the font issue should come eventually. If the gadgets look too small however one may click the arrow button below the close button of the gadget(if there is one-the CPU has it, but the Clock-does not) to enlarge them but now they would look unnaturally big. For the Clock-use a different clock style(the blue one seems small but the first clock style is OK for me).

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Mooly said:

Make a backup copy of the original file. Open with notepad and delete the whole row that contains the following tag:
<autoscaleDPI><!--_locComment_text="{Locked}"-->true</autoscaleDPI>
Don't leave an empty row in the script, delete it entirely.

I assume the XML files are those buried in the Windows\winsxs folder and that one needs to be logged in via the Administrator account to make modifications?

If those are the Gadget files' XML's, there are both 'amd64_' and 'x86_' versions of the same files. Does one need to modify both if running win7-64?

Thanks

Russell

DrDivan55 said:

I had a second look and noticed that the affected gadgets use certain font. According to my opinion the problem is caused by IE11 making some fonts display incorrectly when in a higher DPI setting. This affected some other functions like disabling the Outlook spell-check in certain configurations, etc. So there should be a fix from Microsoft sometime in the future that would address these issues and hopefully that should fix the gadgets too.
As for making gadgets bigger-that's pretty difficult. You should play around first with the css file-that will enlarge the "glass" area around the gadget. Then move to the js file. The scripts that instruct how the gadget should be displayed are at the end of the file: undocked & docked state of the gadgets. I played around with that and the result was pretty ugly. So I would recommend to use the gadgets the way they are for the time being as a fix from Microsoft addressing the font issue should come eventually. If the gadgets look too small however one may click the arrow button below the close button of the gadget(if there is one-the CPU has it, but the Clock-does not) to enlarge them but now they would look unnaturally big. For the Clock-use a different clock style(the blue one seems small but the first clock style is OK for me).

I think I will leave it for the time being but thanks for the interest and thanks again for pointing me in the right direction. I had a quick play with increasing the image sizes in the files but got nowhere.

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DrDivan55 said:

Mooly said:

Make a backup copy of the original file. Open with notepad and delete the whole row that contains the following tag:
<autoscaleDPI><!--_locComment_text="{Locked}"-->true</autoscaleDPI>
Don't leave an empty row in the script, delete it entirely.

I assume the XML files are those buried in the Windows\winsxs folder and that one needs to be logged in via the Administrator account to make modifications?

If those are the Gadget files' XML's, there are both 'amd64_' and 'x86_' versions of the same files. Does one need to modify both if running win7-64?

Thanks

Russell

There where Jerry and I said, in the program files :)

Instructions are here in one of my later posts on page 2,

IE 11 Update on Win7 corrupts gadgets - Microsoft Community

I changed my dpi to 100% and suddenly I had two screens full of clocks. Every time I had attempted to launch a clock it had been installing but I simply couldn't see it. As I'm not experienced enough to start messing with scripts and files I'll have to hope someone comes up with a 'fix-it' script for us dunces.

Mooly said:

There where Jerry and I said, in the program files :)

Instructions are here in one of my later posts on page 2,

IE 11 Update on Win7 corrupts gadgets - Microsoft Community

Ah, I see. I was thrown off by your post #25 showing a screen grab of the CPU Meter's XML file that's different from the gadget.xml one. That suggested I needed to make the true->false change in each gadget being displayed.

All's good now (haven't tried doing it - just know where to look).

Thanks for the course correction

Russell

I've only altered the CPU and weather gadget. Haven't tried altering any others as I don't use them.

And I'd suggest to anyone... use a good backup program such as Acronis and then you have no worries and can play around as much as you want.

That's terrific work Jerry. I'm sure it will help a lot of folks.