Windows Vista – Gadgets are Displayed Incorrectly

When you start Windows Vista and your gadgets are displayed incorrectly, like the color is all black or all white, this may be caused by the xml registration being corrupt or missing. To fix this problem you will have to use an elevated command prompt, which means you will have to run the command prompt as an administrator.

To run an elevated command prompt click the start button, then choose all programs and then click accessories, at the top of the list you will see command prompt. Now right click on it and choose run as administrator your command prompt window will open.

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At the command prompt type the following commands pressing enter after each command. After each command you will receive a message dllregisterserver in (the file name you typed) succeeded.

regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 scrrun.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll

Now close the command prompt window by clicking on the x in the top right corner. Now start the Window Sidebar by clicking on the start button and in the search box type sidebar, in the search results double click on Windows Sidebar and that’s all there is to it.