Gadgets again

[mewnlite]

A week or two ago I had a problem with no gadgets. Someone pointed out that it was a windows feature which needed to be enabled in the program category in the control panel. Fine. I did that and I got my gadgets. I put a clock on the desktop. It worked for a week or so. Tonight I boot into Windows 7 and the clock is gone. So I right click the desktop, click on "Gadgets" and get a message that says "Desktop Gadgets are managed by your System Administrator". Then I went to the Control Panel, clicked on "Desktop Gadgets" and got the same identical message. In Programs under Windows Features I turned Windows Gadget Platform off, rebooted, turned it back on, rebooted, and still no access.
Needless to say, I am the only user and have administrator privileges.
So what's up with this?

 

[Brink]

Hello Mewnlite,

It sounds like your Gadgets were disabled by a group policy. This tutorial will show you how to enable them again.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3674-gadgets-enable-disable.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[mewnlite]

Thanks. The reg file did the trick. I can't quite figure out what disabled them in the first place, but I'll keep that reg file around just in case it happens again! :sarc:

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Mewnlite.

You should run a full antivirus and malware scan to be safe though.

 

[Tews]

Lol.. Shawn, you seem to have a tutorial for everything... ever consider publishing a book and becoming a billionaire??

 

[zigzag3143]

Tom

what makes you think he hasn't<g>

 

[Brink]

Lol.. Shawn, you seem to have a tutorial for everything... ever consider publishing a book and becoming a billionaire??

Tom

what makes you think he hasn't<g>

I wish.