Broken Gadgets - yet another post

[LITM]

Hi,

As you can see from the following, I too seem to be suffering from a now common problem.


http://www.sevenforums.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=50 This thread seems to have had at least what looks the same problem. But sadly nothing in that thread works for me. As in, I've tried the regsvr32 trick, the Windows Gadget Platform off and on trick, and the SFC trick. Sadly none of them have worked.

Everything was working fine until I ran "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware". I had a few trojans that seem to have slipped passed Avast. I'm blaming IE 9 beta for this, but I have no proof.

Everything on my system is up to date. So any ideas would be helpful!

 

[kword88]

do any of the gadgets that came with windows work?

if malwarebytes broke your gadgets, chances are they contained malicious code.

 

[LITM]

No, they're all broken. Some partly show, some don't show at all. But nothing appears to be funcational.

 

[zigzag3143]

No, they're all broken. Some partly show, some don't show at all. But nothing appears to be funcational.

And of course no backup to restore from, right?

Have you tried a repair install?

Are you sure you dont still have malware?

 

[LITM]

Sadly no backup.

I haven't tried a repair install yet. I'm guessing I'll have to reinstall a load of stuff?

Yes I'm sure I'm rid of malware well now. I cleared it days ago, and reset a few times etc. Nothing new has appeared as of this morning.

 

[kword88]

did you read this tutorial? it should work in win7 also:

Windows Sidebar - Gadget Not Displayed Correctly - Vista Forums

 

[LITM]

Yeah, I've looked at that, sadly as I've already mentioned I've tried the regsvr32 trick. Doesn't work for me, and the restore points I have don't date back further than I started having the problem.

 

[zigzag3143]

Sadly no backup.

I haven't tried a repair install yet. I'm guessing I'll have to reinstall a load of stuff?

Yes I'm sure I'm rid of malware well now. I cleared it days ago, and reset a few times etc. Nothing new has appeared as of this morning.

Repair install just fixes existing OS files. You may need to re-install some win updates, but your data should survive.

You do need a win 7 dvd.


Ken

 

[kword88]

this may or may not work:

go to add/remove programs. on the left, click "turn windows features on or off". find "windows gadget platform" and uncheck it. then restart, and reverse these steps, and restart again. i dont know if you need your win7 disc or not.

 

[kword88]

if that doesnt work, try from safe mode.

 

[LITM]

As stated, tried that

 

[kword88]

sorry. i must have missed that. you tried from safe mode too?

 

[y0himba]

This happened when IE upgraded to v8 also. Something about browser restrictions. Check the security in IE and set everything to defaults, reboot, then do the turning Windows gadgets off method previously posted in safe mode. Be sure to reboot as needed.

 

[LITM]

@kword88: no worries, but yeah I had.

@y0imba: Thanks for the idea, just tried it. Sadly that doesn't work either.

@zigzag3143: I tried the repair install. There were two opitions, one to repair boot and one for restore. I tried the repair boot just for the fun of it. Didn't fix anything. I also looked at the restore point, but it still didn't give me any date older than when this problem started.

 

[A Guy]

Repair install

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

A Guy

 

[LITM]

Repair install

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

A Guy

Thank you for pointing out what a Repair Install really is. I went through the steps, but sadly it didn't change anything.

I'm still stuck with broken gadgets.

 

[LITM]

After all this playing around I followed Anim's advice for a different post. Work's first time!

http://www.sevenforums.com/gadgets/102165-gadget-black-error-2.html#post1069596http://www.sevenforums.com/gadgets/102165-gadget-black-error-2.html#post1069596

 

[zydrius32]

to kword88

Thank you very much, kword88, your link saved me .