gadget error

Question

I booted up my PC this morning and found my CPU and weather gadgets (only 2 I use) had lost their images. The CPU now has white background, grey letters and pink border. The weather one is just pink letters, nothing else. Any ideas? I already checked regedit and cant find any errors there, and I have performed a full system virus scan. Anyone have any thoughts on how to resolve this?

Answer 1

Hi!

Here is a Fix for Gadget display issues after IE11 Installation on Windows 7:

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Ghacks reader DrDivan55 found a way to resolve the issue for individual gadgets without having to modify the system's DPI setting in the process.

1. Close the gadget you want to modify from the sidebar. No need to kill the whole sidebar process. Copy the original gadget.xml file to a temporary folder of your choice. Open it with notepad.
2. Find & entirely delete the row containing the tag:

(autoscaleDPI)(!--_locComment_text="{Locked}"--)true(/autoscaleDPI)

Do not leave an empty row in the script, just delete the whole row that has that tag. Setting the tag to autoscale (e.g. (autoscaleDPI)true(/autoscaleDPI)) will not help unless someone wants to play around and modify the whole gadget script which includes modifying the other files in that folder. I will experiment with that when I have the time & if I succeed I will post a solution. 3. Use a program like Unlocker to rename the original file adding a ".bak" extension (e.g. gadget.xml.bak). Unlocker couldn't find the locking process for me, but asked what I wanted to do with the file, so I chose rename. Once you do that, Unlocker seems to unlock the whole folder. So it's easy to go to the next step now. 4. Move the modified file back to the original folder. If access is denied just use Unlocker again-this time to move the modified file. 5. Start the gadget you modified. It should display correctly now, but in a smaller size than the other gadgets that were not affected.

Notes:

If someone has custom language packs installed, don't forget to modify the XML file in the corresponding language folders."

Source and more information: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/18/fix-gadget-display-issues-

ie11-installation-windows-7/

Cheers

Julia

Answer 2

Hi!

Please see my answers here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/my-windows-7-weather-gadget-on-my-desktop-has/e44a7a76-1d9f-4168-bdc6-b920cd87df60

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Julia