Desktop gadgets

Hello, I have a quick question. My desktop gadgets disappeared after windows update. I've tried everything. What should I do, any suggestions? tnx

lady89nen said:

Hello, I have a quick question. My desktop gadgets disappeared after windows update. I've tried everything. What should I do, any suggestions? tnx

Can you be a bit more specific? Did you upgrade from Windows 7? If so Caledon Ken is correct, and you would need to download a third party version of Gadgets. If you had them on an earlier version of Windows 10, and upgraded to the CU, then Microsoft uninstalled the basic package as it's not an officially supported program, and if you try to re-install you will get an error. If you search for Gadgets in a fresh copy of Windows 10 you will find a lot of files as Microsoft still has them in the code, but they are not installed to be used, so what you need to do is look at the installed/modified date of when you installed them, and delete them, and then you can re-install the third party package. This is what happened to me, and that's how I fixed it.

I like the Shutdown/Restart gadget that 8Gadgets (from Sidebar) provides - I would happily dispose of all the others. Since I have installed the latest version (v27 with 4 instead of 3 pages), an item has appeared that I have been unable to get rid of. It is LIKE the Chameleon Weather gadget. I gave feedback about it to the developers but have not had a response. Any idea how I can get rid of it ?

Uninstalling 8GadgetPack and re-installing it, made the unwanted gadget appear with its deletion tool, so I could get rid of it.

That re-install shortcut sounds like a great idea. The Chameleon Weather type of item may well have been that, but it would not respond to anything. As noted above, a re-install of 8Gadget brought that Chameleon back, but with a 'close' option this time, so I used that and am now happy with just the one gadget that I value.