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Old 05-29-2008   #11 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Nope nothing has changed at all. I'm not missing any fonts either.

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Old 05-29-2008   #12 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

I wonder when we were talking about the dlls if you tried to register them with an elevated comman prompt.
Try this (doesn't cost anything)
Open Command Prompt with Administrative rights and execute:
Regsvr32 scrrun.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
one by one
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Old 05-29-2008   #13 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Yeah that's exactly how I tried it when I was reading through a few other articles on the web. The only other thing I can think of is that there is something wrong in the registry but I wouldn't know where to begin looking for the Sidebar entries.
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Old 05-29-2008   #14 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Nothing special in the registry as anyway the problem cannot come from a sidebar entry.
Question: When you drag/drop a gadget on your desktop, is it looking right?
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Old 05-29-2008   #15 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

If I drag and drop them to the desktop they still look the same. The ones that get bigger when on the desktop do resize but still look broken like in the image I posted.
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Old 05-29-2008   #16 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by greenie View Post
I also cannot install user created gadgets from gallery.live.com.
Do you receive an error for that ?
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Old 05-29-2008   #17 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

No, custom gadgets from gallery.live.com seem to be working just fine now. It's the default Windows ones that fail (excluding the Weather gadget oddly).
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Old 05-30-2008   #18 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Does anybody have any more ideas as to what the problems might be?
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Old 05-30-2008   #19 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Then, the last idea i could have would be to uninstall those gadgets and try to reinstall them after a reboot and a cache clean.
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Old 06-01-2008   #20 (permalink)


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Re: Vista Sidebar Gadgets Broken

Yeah I've tried that and still no luck. I've even deleted the contents of my C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar folder and replaced it with a friends but still nothing. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated!
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