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[Chris]

Hi: I'm not sure where else to post this, and I've searched around
for it.

Basically, I had to restart Vista, when it started back up it did a
consistency check on the C drive.


Then, once I got into Vista, one of my two notes and the clock
vanished. I cannot get them back.


1)Clock does not show on Add Gadgets, but there is a Clock.Gadget in
"C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets"

2)Also, under the Windows Sidebar Properties
a) "Restore gadgets installed with Windows" is disabled
b) "View list of running gadgets" shows me two instances of Notes,
when only one is visible -- and I don't want to remove it because I
don't want to lose the content there.


How do I give the Sidebar a kick to bring it back to reality?

 

[Chris]

Hi:  I'm not sure where else to post this, and I've searched around
for it.

Basically, I had to restart Vista, when it started back up it did a
consistency check on the C drive.

Then, once I got into Vista, one of my two notes and the clock
vanished.  I cannot get them back.

1)Clock does not show on Add Gadgets, but there is a Clock.Gadget in
"C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets"

2)Also, under the Windows Sidebar Properties
a) "Restore gadgets installed with Windows" is disabled
b) "View list of running gadgets" shows me two instances of Notes,
when only one is visible -- and I don't want to remove it because I
don't want to lose the content there.

How do I give the Sidebar a kick to bring it back to reality?

Can someone help me at all? I have been able to remove and restore
other Vista installed gadgets. Just not the clock. I don't know
where it went, I don't know why it thinks the clock is hunky dory but
can't be readded. This is so incredibly frustrating.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Can someone help me at all? I have been able to remove and restore
other Vista installed gadgets. Just not the clock. I don't know
where it went, I don't know why it thinks the clock is hunky dory but
can't be readded. This is so incredibly frustrating.

I had some problems with installing gadgets on another computer. I had an
idea that a .gadget file is really a zip file, so I renamed x.gadget to
x.zip (for two or three gadgets "x"). It worked and I could extract
everything to a convenient folder. I ran the installer that I found inside
that folder and got the gadget to install.

There are two things about the above:

1. I have no idea if it will lead to a useful solution for you :-(

2. I have completely forgotten the details of what I did (even which
gadgets).

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I had some problems with installing gadgets on another computer. I had an
idea that a .gadget file is really a zip file, so I renamed x.gadget to
x.zip (for two or three gadgets "x"). It worked and I could extract
everything to a convenient folder. I ran the installer that I found inside
that folder and got the gadget to install.

There are two things about the above:

1. I have no idea if it will lead to a useful solution for you :-(

2. I have completely forgotten the details of what I did (even which
gadgets).

3. Maybe I'm wrong

Later yesterday I tried to install a new gadget on my sidebar (on a
laptop). It wouldn't install, and moreover, when I changed the file to a
..zip, Windows wouldn't open it, claiming an invalid ZIP file.

I tried the trick on one or two other gadget files and they *did* work.

So forget my advice...or not

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Maybe will help, maybe not, try this

Right-click on Windows Sidebar in the notification area (system tray).
Select Properties -> "Restore gadgets installed with Windows"

Good Luck :geek:

mopar

Already did that. No joy.

I had installed the same gadget successfully on another computer, so I
copied that file to the problem computer and it worked.

Perhaps the file on the website was messed up by yesterday, whereas my
earlier download on computer #2 was OK. Or perhaps something is messed up
on computer #1 that corrupted the download.

Here's a WAG: I'll never know