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First off, this is not a dupe of this question: Windows 7 - gadgets disappeared

My Gadgets disappeared from my desktop. When I right-click on the desktop and then Gadgets to attempt to bring them back, nothing happens. I can't even select any Gadget options under Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization. Doing so results in nothing happening yet again. I just noticed this a few days ago and do not know what changes I could have made that would cause this to happen.

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oscilatingcretin
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    I know I should comment this, but I don't have 50 rep points yet, so please don't downvote this because it's not technically an answer. Microsoft discontinued gadgets quite some time ago on all current and future version of Windows. I don't know if that would necessarily cause this problem as it looks like existing gadgets would still work, but I figured it was worth mentioning. – Catatonic27 Feb 06 '15 at 21:46
  • Have you tried doing the steps suggested in [old question](http://superuser.com/questions/272355/windows-7-gadgets-disappeared). How is it different from that question? – clhy Aug 09 '15 at 03:39
  • It looks like this question belongs to SuperUser. – Norbert Willhelm Aug 09 '15 at 05:26

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Try to open task-manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and then click on "File -> Run new Task" and add "sidebar.exe" and then see what happens. If your gadgets return to normal or rather try that .bat file from Windows 7 - gadgets disappeared from Kyle's answer, as that .bat file can recover each and every gadget files to normal.

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I solved the problem for me by killing the sidebar.exe process. After this, selecting "Gadgets" from the desktop right-click menu restored the gadgets.

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