Windows 7: Where Gadgets Are Installed

helllo guys thanks for this information it was very helpful.

but i was wondering if you guys could help me on what i am trying to do.

i installed gadgets on my windows 7 partition that crashed and i reinstalled windows and i am trying to recorver the same settings or actually the data that i loaded into those apps, i found the apps and copied them from the gadget folder as mentioned above, however only the DEFAULT (or the ones that already come with windows) were restored to its perfect location and everything. but altho the 3rd party apps have been installed and show up on the gadgets panel they are not loaded or running as they were in the partition before, was wondering it there is anyway i can restore them .

thanks for the help :)

there is no way on recovering the data i entered on them?

like i had an notes app and some calendar ones, it must have been saved somewhere, no?

thanks for the reply

Maybe if you have the old files in C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets from before the reinstall. I have reinstalled many times and I have always had to setup them again.
Jerry

yeah i have them and copied them over to the respective folder in the new install, i still have the old partition intact just isntalled the new one in a new hdd.

but that didnt help either

In what folder did you install the .gadegts?
I have found the gadgets are stored in: C:\Windows\winsxs
but when I tried to save downloaded .gadgets there I got a message
that I have no Administrator permission to do that.

Technically you can just copy over all the .gadget folders to your Win7 Gadgets folder and they should work fine. No need to zip. Just open your Vista gadgets folder and copy them over to a USB drive.

One very easy way to access the gadgets folder in Windows 7 is to type "shell:gadgets" (without the quotes) into the Start Menu search bar and hit ENTER.