Ralph
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Why windows gadgets stopped working?


I don’t know exactly that what’s wrong but for some reason windows gadgets stopped working. I can open the gadget gallery and select a gadget, but it doesn't show the entire thing. As I select the clock and all it shows is a black square with the red ticking hand frozen. Another example is the DU meter. All it shows when I click on it is a little white square where the meter should be and the calendar doesn’t appear at all. But I am able to close gadgets by way of the close button; can anyone help me to fix it?
8 months ago
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Nidhi Kapoor | Sep 20 2011

Hi,

These errors only occur when the XML registration ismissing in the system. For this, you need to solve the problem. Here are someof the important steps which you need to follow to fix the problem:

  • Firstly, close the Windows Sidebar. To close, you need to right-click on the Sidebar icon in the Notification area and then click on Exit button.
  • Once you have closed the Windows Sidebar, open an Elevated Command Prompt window. To open the window, got to Start, click All Programs, then click on Accessories button, right-click Command Prompt, and finally click Run as administrator.
  • Once you are done with this, type the following program in the Command Prompt window and press ENTER:

regsvr32 msxml3.dll

Likewise, run these commands:

regsvr32 scrrun.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll

If everythinggoes fine and the registration is successful, you'll get the message 'DllRegisterServer'in succeeded for each command executed. Forchecking whether the problem has been resolved or not you need to open WindowsSidebar (sidebar.exe) and check the same.

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