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

Bongo:
I don't have ANY Gadgets in the C:\Users\MY USER NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets folder, ALL the Gadgets on my comfuser are in C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets folder;
will this make a difference?

Looking at it, I don't see a problem just using the regular Notepad; correct?

Can I remove IE11 the normal way (Add/Remove Programs / Revo Uninstaller) if it doesn't work for me? If I do decide to do this, I'll post back how it went. Thank you.

If you got IE11 via Windows Update I explain in Post 98 how to roll back to IE10 which doesn't deliberately ruin gadgets.

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urbanspaceman1 said:

I changed the XML in the Clock, CPU, Weather Gadgets and made the into gadget installers. Download the zip folder at the bottom of this post and extract it, then double click the gadget to install it.


The new gadgets will have a red # 2 on them.


Jerry

Like many others, I would just like to say thank you!!! 125% DPI Scaling is vastly preferable on my 24" display and I really missed having the weather on my desktop. :)

I installed the new version of gadget given in zip by Jerry mentioned as 2 even after installing the same I am getting the currency converter data before 14 days

Please break that into two coherent sentences as it makes no sense.

The non-support of gadgets by MS for over a year is taking its toll. What I am doing now is installing v.12 or higher of 8GadgetPack - Gadgets for Windows 8 / 8.1 which support Win7 and is equal or better to the Win7 gadgets MS no longer supports.

The currency gadget (as per post #45 Gadget.zip) did not work anymore. It shows the data of "XX days ago".
Is there any solution/alternative for that?

thank you