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The user initially faced issues with disappearing desktop widgets in Windows 7 after a reboot, encountering an error about system administrator management. A suggestion was made that upgrading to IE 11 might cause such problems, but the user confirmed the cause was different. After extensive troubleshooting involving registry edits and reboots, the user successfully resolved the issue and regained functionality of their widgets.

DeltaD

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Thread Author #1
I've happily had 2 widgets running in my Windows 7 for the past 3-4 years without any issue. Usually if either disappears I only need to reinstall it again to get it going. However, for some reason on a reboot today I've not only lost them both, but if I try to reinstall them I get an error msg about how "Desktop gadgets are managed by your System Administrator" and that to change them I need to do something about the Group Policy perhaps?

I possibly did knock something off somewhere along the way over the past day or two while trying to find the source of a daily alarm coming from my case, but have no idea what I may have deleted or stopped running.

I dearly want to get these functional again, so would appreciate anyone able to help me out on what I might have done & how to overcome the issue.

Thanks. :)
 

Joe S

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If you upgraded to IE 11 that caused dome of them not to work anymore.
Joe
 

DeltaD

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Fixed thankfully - appreciate the thought Joe but no - mine was something else that ended up taking me 4 hours. a lot of reboots, messing around in the Registry & doing things I never knew were available in Windows but ultimately something's finally worked and I'm a happy bunny once again :).