gadgets, sidebar and UAC won't open load or run.....

win 7 x64 SP1.
gadgets won't load on boot, nor can be loaded. sidebar exe can't be manualy started form it's folder.

Change UAC and Gadgets in control panel do nothing at all as if they were not clicked.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/290683-i-cant-run-window-sidebar-vista.html

that last post, that registry value isn't even there.

gadgets are enabled. i have tried gadgets reset.bat ran as admin and rebooting as well as just rebooting.

the last thing i did,

Why does dllhost.exe Com surrogate consumes memory untill crash - Microsoft Community

(disabled KB2670838)

 

I know my answer is not what you want to hear but I could never get the weather sidebar gadget to work ever in my wife's vista computer. Tried several to no avail.

Lots of news lately about some gadgets harboring malware and virus's so maybe that could be your problem, but who knows?

 

^^^^^^^^^^ GR8 suggestion you may want to run a scan to rule out malware
1. Try creating a new user account and login with it to see if UAC and gadgets work
2. Did you try the suggestion to run sfc /scannow ?
3. When you tried to start sidebar.exe was it located here? C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-sidebar_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_2d02b12c3d47a517 and was it 1.41 MB ?

 

C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe : 1.41mb

did sfc /scannow, came up clean.

will try a new user later.

 

hhhmmm perhaps it's time for a clean install.

 

when to MS's website downloaded the IE11 installer, installed it rebooted and now everything is all good.