Dark Notes Gadget Bug.

[ssdevious]

Greetings,

I'd like to request a help in regard to one of my favorites gadgets - Black and Dark Notes.

This is the original URL of the product: Windows Live Gallery

I downloaded some updates, restarted my notebook and it was gone. Later on, I found out that it didn't disappear, it's still there, just invisible. Look at the screenshot below to fully understand the situation. The updates I installed before this happened were these 3: KB2484033, KB2387530 and IE9.

The image shows the current bugged appearance, invisible gadget exposed by pressing Windows + G and the previous intact version.



I'll be very grateful for any suggestions, thank you.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

 

[Shadowjk]

Have you tried Uninstalling those Updates?

Also have you tried to change your walppaper to see if the Notes are still there?

Many Thanks,
Josh

 

[ssdevious]

Have you tried Uninstalling those Updates?

Also have you tried to change your walppaper to see if the Notes are still there?

Many Thanks,
Josh

Greetings,

I've not, those updates were listed as critical, important or were generally a part of the system, I believe that uninstalling those would lead to much worse damage than anything else. Also, I sort of needed IE re-install due to other bugs and errors.

Yes, I'm, aware that the screenshot, where it works all right is a different wallpaper and a much brighter one, but this gadget worked on a black one as well, there were no problems with that.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

 

[Shadowjk]

Okay could you please try a System File Checker scan and Run it 3 Times please

See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html For More Information

Many Thanks,
Josh

 

[ssdevious]

Okay could you please try a System File Checker scan and Run it 3 Times please

See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html For More Information

Many Thanks,
Josh

Greetings again,

"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."
- CMD

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

 

[ssdevious]

I'd also like to add one more thing. Other gadgets are working perfectly fine. Just this one is not. I wish, there was a way to provide more information, but perhaps is someone could take a look at that gadget, test it or have a look, if everything is all right with it. I'm now running SP1, but it was installed after this problem occurred, thus shouldn't be linked with it.

Any more ideas? I also tried few tutorials on this forum, nothing changed it.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

 

[ssdevious]

Greetings,

apologies for double posting, but I wondered and wanted to ask, which .dll control the sidebar processes, is it possible that one of them was corrupted / damaged and thus this specific gadget stopped working? I ran also a registry cleaner and fixed dozens of errors, but nothing changed. When I tried to run few 'regsvr32' an error displayed when running this one: 'wlsrvc.dll' and than even Weather Gadget stopped working properly, but that was fixed after restart. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

 

[mikey1274]

hello there,
i was just reading the above post from ssdevious and i also am having the same exact problem . and i myself would love to figure out what caused this problem . please look into it Gadget name is BlackandDarkNotes10.gadget

thanks in advance

 

[harpua]

Had the same problem with that gadget after I installed IE9.

Here's the fix:

Install Notepad++ (free app) if you don't already have it.
go to "C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar"
open gadgets folder
open the appropriate gadget folder for the black & dark notes gadget
open the en US folder
open the js folder
Edit the "notes.js" and "settings.js" files which are found in the js folder as follows by first opening each file (one at a time) in NotePad++ (referred to above).

For each of these two files use the encoding menu in Notepad++ and set the encoding to "UTF-8 without BOM" and then save each file....

Now simply re-add (re-install) the gadget and everything should be back to normal.

(Don't forget to use the windows key and G to find the still screwed up version of the black and dark notes gadget which should still be lurking on your desktop and remove it.)

Worked for me.

 

[Airbot]

Tried this yet?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...displaying-correctly-windows-7-fix.html?ltr=G

 

[ssdevious]

Greetings,

yes, Harpua got this right. I fixed this one, when the fix solution was posted on the gadget page. It works, that's all I can tell, but thanks anyway, was good idea posting it here, because I believe, I'm not the only person using this gadget.

Long live Windows 7.

Best Regards,
SS-Totenkopf

 

[jaipex]

I signed up trying to reach Harpua, but for some reason I can't figure out how to PM on this site so this will have to do..
Does anyone know whether Harpua's fix will restore one's previous notes or are those essentially gone forever? I really value my notes more than anything else since they are important but not committed to memory (since they are, of course, notes!)..

 

[jaipex]

Well.. if it matters to anyone, I wasn't able to restore my previous notes, which royally blows, but that's that.

 

[tonyworship]

ok - here's my story. I had the same issue, i did his solution, and nothing happened at first.. here's what i did after:

1. right click on your desktop and click "View" then "Show Desktop Gadgets".
all the other ones disappear , then do it again "View" then "Show Desktop Gadgets". it showed up at this time for me with all my notes still in tacked! it did however throw about 20 black - blank note pads on my desktop, i just deleted them. Seems to be working fine now. Win Win for me.

thanks for the help!

 

[jaipex]

You know what? Did you happen to do that recently after an update?
Because yesterday night I did an update and when I started it up today I had about 10 extra dark notes on my desktop (ones that I had probably previously opened when trying to restore the old one), which probably meant if I had left the problem alone it would have fixed itself and I would still have those!
Double sigh.

 

[ssdevious]

Had the same problem with that gadget after I installed IE9.

Here's the fix:

Install Notepad++ (free app) if you don't already have it.
go to "C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar"
open gadgets folder
open the appropriate gadget folder for the black & dark notes gadget
open the en US folder
open the js folder
Edit the "notes.js" and "settings.js" files which are found in the js folder as follows by first opening each file (one at a time) in NotePad++ (referred to above).

For each of these two files use the encoding menu in Notepad++ and set the encoding to "UTF-8 without BOM" and then save each file....

Now simply re-add (re-install) the gadget and everything should be back to normal.

(Don't forget to use the windows key and G to find the still screwed up version of the black and dark notes gadget which should still be lurking on your desktop and remove it.)

Worked for me.

Greetings,

thank you for this, I've noticed that earlier on the official page of that gadget.

Good thing is, it worked for me back than, but however now, the gadget went crazy again.

I tried this, in a hope, it would work again and nothing.

I somewhat opened it in NotePad++ and than changed the encoding, but once I open it again, the encoding is back to ANSI, any idea, how to change that encoding for good?

Best Regards,
~tEh'Par4d0x

 

[Zeekay]

Alternate to Dark Note available.

this is an alternative to the dark notes. i use windows 7 and it works perfectly with me. Try and let others know.


Windows 7 Notepad Gadget | Windows 7 Themes

thankyou.

 

[ssdevious]

AV flagged it as a virus, nice try though.

Best Regards,
~tEh'Pâr4d0x

 

[A Guy]

Just d/l and scanned with Avast and Avira AV. With MalwareBytes, Superantispyware, and Emsisoft antispyware. All came up clean. A Guy

 

[Zeekay]

NO virus.

i don't think so it has any virus. i am using it still. it had no virus at all. i scanned it though. its all clean!