Gadget Border Color Problem

[BajaPaul]

I recently had an installation problem with a program which required a
restore to an earlier date to correct/back-out-of.

Everything works fine as before except the border around three of my gadgets
have changed in color.

Two of them are MS gadgets, Calendar and Weather. The other is Presto's
Clock.

Problem: The border color around these three gadgets is now a bright purple
color instead of white as before. Other than appearance everything looks and
works fine. I feel the gadgets that don't have purple borders just don't
have a border at all.

I have mutiple users on this computer and their gadgets have bright purple
borders too!

I have tried to close and open the Sidebar. I have uninstalled and
re-installed all the gadgets. I have changed my themes and backgrounds. The
purple border color follows the gadget if I drag it to the desktop. I don't
have any earler restore points to go back too.

I feel this is a global setting somewhere that got changed or scrambled. I
searched all over various directories for a variable to edit but can't find
anything anywhere. I even searched through the registry. I searched it on
the internet and here. No luck!

Does anyone have any clues on how to reset the default gadget border color
back to white? Purple just doesn't look right!

Paul

 

[ianwvt]

The Purple/Pink background problem is related to the opacity settings.
You could try the following and see if this solves it (found it worked
for someone else):

1.) close sidebar and exit it
2.) accessories> command prompt [right click and choose 'run as
administrator']
3.) type in these three in the given order

regsvr32 msxml3.dll [enter]

regsvr32 scrrun.dll [enter]

regsvr32 jscript.dll [enter]

after each enter you will get a success dialog window

Open sidebar and it should work.....

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Ian
Windows 7 Forums - http://www.w7forums.com

 

[Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP]

This might apply.

Gadgets in the Windows Vista Sidebar are not displayed correctly:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...ista-Sidebar-are-not-displayed-correctly.html

If not, posting a screenshot of the Sidebar would help.

 

[BajaPaul]

Thanks for reply! My problem seem to fix itself. I changed the DPI settings
back to Default=96 to correct text display problems I was having within
AutoCad 2009 and that seemed to fix my gadjet border problem at the same time.

FYI, I have been running high resolution on dual LCD monitors and had to set
the DPI up to 140 make text readable. I found out using UltraMon I can have
mutiple resolution setings and swap between them with a quick menu click.
IMO, Nvidia's scaling works better, really good, than the default Dell
monitor scaling at lower resolutions than native. So now I run 1440x900,
1650x1080, or 1920x1200 depending on app all using Default DPI=96. AutoCad
forced this swapping on me since it doesn't like higher DPI's than 96.
Always something.....

Problem fixed!!!!!

 

[Gabriel]

I'm glad you discovered this! I have been troubled with this problem since
vista first arrived and now on Windows 7 I have the same problem.
It seems that if you run a option that is not listed it gives you this
border. I'm running 125% and all is well. 150% may be ok but that is too
large for me @1920X1280