Hello, all. My gadgets disappeared. They do not look like black boxes or anything, they just do not show up at all. The right-click gadgets menu is simply empty, there's no gadgets there at all, not even the default ones.
Just to be clear, I already have done the following things:
- checked if UAC is on -- no effect (though it mattered in beta only, but anyway);
- tried deleting custom gadgets from c:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets and same\Shared Gadgets -- no effect;
- tried turning off the Gadgets Platform, rebooting and then turning it on again -- no effect;
- tried using all possible registry tweaks (the ones that allow using gadgets with UAC turned off, the ones that remove administrator access issue, the one that removes always-offline mode in IE and others) -- no effect;
- tried checking if IE was running in offline mode (it wasn't) -- no effect;
- removed the Windows sidebar settings from C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\ -- no effect;
- tried deleting the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\ -- no effect.
So, nothing that I've googled up so far worked. Help, please!
Just to be clear, I already have done the following things:
- checked if UAC is on -- no effect (though it mattered in beta only, but anyway);
- tried deleting custom gadgets from c:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets and same\Shared Gadgets -- no effect;
- tried turning off the Gadgets Platform, rebooting and then turning it on again -- no effect;
- tried using all possible registry tweaks (the ones that allow using gadgets with UAC turned off, the ones that remove administrator access issue, the one that removes always-offline mode in IE and others) -- no effect;
- tried checking if IE was running in offline mode (it wasn't) -- no effect;
- removed the Windows sidebar settings from C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\ -- no effect;
- tried deleting the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\ -- no effect.
So, nothing that I've googled up so far worked. Help, please!
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