I have two PC's with Windows 7 OS. The laptop is fine but the Gadgets on the Desktop will not display properly. They appear as "outlines" for a better word. The text part shows fine but the background is vague.
I've searched the Internet and even tried the Microsoft Community which is a joke. :-( I tried every suggestion I could find but nothing worked.
There was one suggestion I didn't try because I was afraid I'd totally mess up my PC. The person said that maybe the Gadgets.exe file was corrupt and said if I could find a copy I could replace the defective one. If I copied the file from my laptop, removed the old one from the desktop and used the one from my laptop would that possibly work?
First of all, I will check out the link you sent Brink.
Next, after reading about IE 11 being a problem I spent almost an hour yesterday trying to uninstall IE 11 and never could uninstall it. I even tried Revo Uninstaller with no luck. It didn't even show up in that program. Where do I go to uninstall IE11? Bizarre.
It was not even in the the Programs and Features file.
Was that NOT a good suggestion about replacing the Gadget.exe file?
Just want to move a little slow on this issue because I have a way of messing things up.
Unbelievable. I ended up Googling how to uninstall IE and it sure was hiding. I never knew it was hiding in the updates. Anyway I uninstalled it and like magic my Gadgets were back.
After rebooting it wanted to install updates and IE11 was one of them. I hid it and all is well.
Thanks to both of you for jumping in to offer help. I'm one very happy person now.
I suppose no one knows why IE11 was a problem. Not that I care but it would be nice to know.
