My Windows 7 weather gadget on my desktop has changed color

Question

After installing Internet Explorer 11 via Windows Update, I restarted the computer and my weather gadget had turned pink and blurry. Did I do something wrong? Any help would be nice.

Jimmy

Answer 1

Some users say that gadgets work fine again when they change the DPI (Display Size Settings) to 100% Smaller Fonts. How you do that is described here:  http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/443-dpi-display-size-settings-change.html

Answer 2

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 3

All you have to do is uninstall IE11 and downgrade back to IE10

It's very simple, all you do is go to Windows Update

Click Installed Updates in the bottom left hand corner

In the Search Bar at the very top right, simply type in Internet Explorer and it should pop right up.

Then uninstall Internet Explorer 11, it will downgrade you back to IE10.

If you want to prevent windows from automatically updating you back to IE11 go to Help>About Internet Explorer and uncheck Install new versions automatically then press OK

Answer 4

Information: Obviously Microsoft silently decided "to discontinue Gadgets because of security-concerns": http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows/gadgets

How to disable gadgets: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn261332

Cheers

Julia

Answer 5

Hi Jimmy!

No, you didn't do anything wrong. There are quite a few other people experiencing problems  with IE 11 and gadgets.

For now, I suggest you just wait a bit and "live" with the pinkish weather gadget. I would imagine, that "sooner or later" it will be fixed automatically, perhaps even through the November-updates.

Sorry, that I'm not able to supply THE solution.

Hope that's at least helpful...

Cheers

Julia