Windows 7 tip: Restore Gadgets After Disabling UAC

Windows 7 tip: If you have changed your User Account Control settings to Never notify, by default Gadgets will not be displayed on the desktop. A simple registry change should solve the problem: Start Regedit Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Sidebar \ Settings Right-click on the right panel and create a new DWORD (32-Bit) Value named AllowElevatedProcess. Double click on this and give it a value of 1 [via]