Desktop a mess - Windows 7 (64bit)

davewhite04

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Hi all,

I have searched and searched for an answer to this, obviously to no avail.

My problem is this.

I've downloaded some gadgets from the Windows site, which I find extremely useful, and want to keep them.

Problem is, most of the time when I shutdown Windows, next time I boot it up the gadgets are all over the place?

Any gadget wizards out there that can advise me on how to rectify this extremely annoying bug?

Many thanks
 
Sp1 tbh. It's stopped the odd wandering gadget on my screen although I admit it was only ever 1 or two every couple weeks. Also solved the sidebar using 50% cpu bug but I don't believe anyone really knows why sp1 has caused so many problems for some people.

Which gadgets? Could be badly codded.
 
Azuse05 said:
Sp1 tbh. It's stopped the odd wandering gadget on my screen although I admit it was only ever 1 or two every couple weeks. Also solved the sidebar using 50% cpu bug but I don't believe anyone really knows why sp1 has caused so many problems for some people.

Which gadgets? Could be badly codded.
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Oh great, good old Microsoft. Why the heck they cannot create a sort of "gadget area" on the right side of the screen which could be resizeable etc. is beyond me.

I use:

GPU Observer
Network Meter (fantastic little gadget)
UK Radio Player (I wouldn't mind a better one where you can add stations, this has the facility but doesn't work, any links to better ones appreciated)
Vista Calculator
Volume Control Reloaded
Weather
Windows Media Centre (which I've got turned off, because I'm sick of rearranging it, even though it's a great little gadget too)

What ones do you use?

Thanks for your help
 
davewhite04 said:
Oh great, good old Microsoft. Why the heck they cannot create a sort of "gadget area" on the right side of the screen which could be resizeable etc. is beyond me.

I use:

GPU Observer
Network Meter (fantastic little gadget)
UK Radio Player (I wouldn't mind a better one where you can add stations, this has the facility but doesn't work, any links to better ones appreciated)
Vista Calculator
Volume Control Reloaded
Weather
Windows Media Centre (which I've got turned off, because I'm sick of rearranging it, even though it's a great little gadget too)

What ones do you use?

Thanks for your help
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hmmm restarted my PC now, gadgets didn't move a pixel.

There must be logic behind this, anyone else experiencing it?
 
As in:the config files for these gadgets are still being written to or a registry key is locked when Windows forces the system to shutdown.

It can't hurt to try what I suggested.
 
yashiro said:
As in:the config files for these gadgets are still being written to or a registry key is locked when Windows forces the system to shutdown.

It can't hurt to try what I suggested.
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Like I said, they didn't move a pixel with my last restart, so there must be a way to fix it I hope, without logging off first.

What you suggest may well work, but it's not a long term solution as I don't want to be logging off then shutting down every time I want to turn my PC off.

If what you're saying about locks and so forth is the problem, I wonder if I could delay the shutdown or the restart process somehow, until these locks have been freed up and the config files updated(if that is the problem).

Thanks for your advice.
 
what he means is that the settings arent saved as if windows suddenly shutdowns it doesnt "save and quit" them etc. Having now restarted once with it not moving them, if it was this problem causing it, they should now be fine.
 
Bear with me... there is madness to my method!!..

There was a weirdness bug (technical term) in the Vista64 sidebar that used to mess up the order they were stacked in, but using the 32bit sidebar instead sorted this problem!..

Maybe using the 32bit widget program rather than the 64bit (if Win7 has this.. it probly burried somewhere!!) might solve it (till MS do!!)
 
No, they removed the fixed area of the side bar. You'll find sidebar.exe in the process list if you're using gadgets :)
 
Ch3m1c4L said:
what he means is that the settings arent saved as if windows suddenly shutdowns it doesnt "save and quit" them etc. Having now restarted once with it not moving them, if it was this problem causing it, they should now be fine.
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Yeah, and if you apply the principal I said then it uses exactly the same logic.

I understood what he said.

So what was your point?
 
Simian said:
Bear with me... there is madness to my method!!..

There was a weirdness bug (technical term) in the Vista64 sidebar that used to mess up the order they were stacked in, but using the 32bit sidebar instead sorted this problem!..

Maybe using the 32bit widget program rather than the 64bit (if Win7 has this.. it probly burried somewhere!!) might solve it (till MS do!!)
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Ha!

This sounds interesting...

Will mess about with it now :)

Thanks!
 
Sorted.

Basically if you're using gadgets that were designed for Vista(they have some available even on the Windows 7 gadget download site) they act as if they are loaded on Vista.

In Windows 7 you select either to enlarge the gadget or keep it the same size, typically enlarging the gadget might give you more detail or whatever. However, this works completely differently in Vista.

There are two positions in Vista, lock and unlock. So since I was using a couple of Vista designed gadgets enlarged, they were actually "unlocked" on the screen, even though they were enlarged if you know what I mean.

So basically they were floating around unlocked and intermittently must reset their position.

Thanks all
 
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