Vista - Windows Sidebar - Gadget Not Displayed Correctly

Hello Zenica, and welcome to Vista Forums.

If you just installed a gadget recently before this happened, you might try uninstalling that one first to see if it helps after doing all of the "regsvr32" commands again before having to do a reinstall.

Shawn

brilliant!!!! dats working properly.... thank u man... Aharnish India...

Your welcome Aharnish, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

Same problem here.

I was having all sorts of trouble, but I was able to replace a broken chkdsk program, fix a number of corrupted directories, and get my sidebar 95% back up to speed.

HOWEVER, the calendar and stocks gadgets don't load correctly. I get an orange box for the calendar and nothing at all for the stocks gadget. (I only have interest in using the calendar gadget, but reading these posts inspired me to check the others.)

I was able to uninstall and reinstall them, to no avail. It looks like I can't do a Repair Install because I don't have an install disk - those files are on a partition.

Any more suggestions? Perhaps there is another .dll file that needs the regsvr32 command?

Thanks for any suggestions.

-Ben

Hello Ben, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Since these gadgets came with Vista, you might see if running a sfc /scannow command can find and fix any bad systems files that may be the cause.

System Files - SFC Command

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn,

Thanks for such a quick reply!

I had run scannow in my efforts to get chkdsk up and running. I ran it again just in case there were new or other problems, but it didn't find "any integrity violations".

Any other thoughts??

Thanks again,
Ben

Ok,

See if doing just Step Two in this tutorial can help any.

Windows Sidebar will not Start in Vista

That did it!

Thanks Shawn.

Your welcome Ben. I'm happy to hear that got it sorted for you.

Shawn

i have a problem.. i have the sidebar function . .the calander.. but there is multiple occurances showing.. i can access the view gadgets list.. its listing all of the occurances of the calander.. is there a way to eliminate the excess occurances?

thanks