Saturday, March 21, 2009

Fix Gadgets Problem in Windows 7

If a Windows 7 user disables User Account Control, the built-in gadgets in Windows Explorer no longer work. To fix this problem, you can open up the Registry Editor. Open it up by pressing the start button and typing “regedit” into the search and pressing enter.

Navigate to the folder: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Sidebar\Setting”

Create a new DWORD value called “AllowElevatedProcess” and set its value to “1″.

Windows 7s Registry Editor

Windows 7's Registry Editor

The problem should be completely fixed now.

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