Hope Someone Can Help. I am using Vista Business Edition on a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop. For whatever reason the gadgets in my Windows Sidebar arent loading properly. For example the Clock gadget appears totally black with no numbers and the Notes Gadget doesnt show up except as a little rectangular shape which is black in color.
The last thing I did prior to this happening was to do a system restore since the comp wasnt loading properly and after that I downloaded an update for Windows Defender.
Any thoughts to what went wrong and how I can get the gagdets to work again would be greatly appreciated.
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.....
Save the below lines in a text file and rename it to bat (.bat), then execute the batch file as administrator. it worked for me.
taskkill /im sidebar.exe /f
regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll
regsvr32 /s scrrun.dll
regsvr32 /s jscript.dll
regsvr32 /s atl.dll
Regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sbdrop.dll"
Regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\wlsrvc.dll"
reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones" /f
"C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"
Cheak all updates and add on ones in menu also dl latest flash adobe ok shockwave and java and download www.ccleaner.com get rest of junk out then rebooot k
cheak msconfig also for weird stuff starting up ok and did u run cc cleaner great tool try it also try re dl netframework 2.0 ok
no shouldnt make any let me cheak sumthing
ok go to microsoft and dl the latest msxml ok thats should do it
did u try it if it works please change rating to fix ya ok
try msxml ok re dl that software from microsoft.com ok bud
lol u can try sp1 i did it was cool certain things but i dont think u can dl rt1 anymore was few weeks ogo for few days what was teh last thing u did again before this happend what did u dl
u cheak msconfig and see whats all starting up under startup then services then hide microsoft ones see whats left u did all the java adobe flash shockwave ect what about sdk installer microsoftuses ucheak all microsoftupdates again
ok ill reserch tonight get back with me when u get back on toamoro
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Sorry djnick989....your suggestions didn't work. But thanks for trying and replying so quickly.
Still didnt work and yes I used ccleaner. I downloaded netframework 3.5 instead of 2.0. Does that make a difference?
Hi....I tried it but still no result.....thanks for all your help tho....hopefully the Vista Service Pack will fix it....either that or I'll just format the computer and be done with it.
I had downloaded AVG Antivirus Free Edition.....but this was after I did a system restore of the pc. The only other thing was an update for Windows Defender definitions.
Yes I did all of that. Still no results. I will have to try and deal with this later as it is getting late for me. Thanks for all your help.
I have the same problem Gadgets will not load sometimes just a black strip where gadgets should be . If I click in that area a message asking me to shut gadgets down or re load will appear but clicking one of these options will not make gadgets load. After re- booting computer several times the gadgets will load OK. This problem appeared before and after updating to Vista SP1 RC.
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