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

Was anyone lucky using this FIX?

Gadgets not Displaying Correctly in Windows 7 - Fix

gregrocker said:

Win7 gadgets are wildly popular with tens of millions of consumers, so MS needs to be shown how at odds they are with their own customers.

When business made the decision to migrate almost entirely off of final XP to Win7, the future of Win7 was guaranteed. Attempts to grudgingly shut off the features of their only successful OS would only be further disaster.

I pointed this out to the IE11 team member at Global MVP Summit who tried to explain that gadgets were not supported any longer. They can't turn them off and outrage a hundred million customers, but crippling them would cause even greater outrage.

If this isn't' fixed by the first of the year, I am going to inquire more of the IE11 team and will document it here.

If you have had a chance to contact the IE11 team, I would love to hear what they had to say! :)

Z

upiter77 said:

Finally, I solved this Problem using this FIX:

Fix for Gadget display issues after IE11 Installation on Windows 7 | Ghacks

I did not like that fix since it actually changes the size of the affected gadgets, I believe. They look like the sizes that would show at 100% rather than the default of 125%.

However, the fix mentioned in this thread here doesn't do that, or certainly not with a large enough change to be visible. Much better outcome, since the look and feel stays consistent with the other gadgets that were not affected by the IE11 release.

As a side comment, for me, only Microsoft gadgets appeared to be messed up when the IE11 upgrade happened ... ones from third-parties were not. I am not sure why this was the case.

Z

i had the same problem when i loaded ie 11....i went ahead and lowered my resolution by one notch. hardly noticeable since i have hi res screen. not all of us have hi res screens but this is a fast fix nonetheless
james

Guess I won't be DLing IE11, I like my Death Star gadget alot. It's just a clock, but looks cool, especially at 20% opacity