Sidebar Issues-please help!

I am having problems with my sidebar, and I think with IE as well. It
all started when I uninstalled McAfee from my system. When I had it
installed, it would freeze my entire computer in seconds, so I
uninstalled it. After that my sidebar never worked right again. The
gadgets show up, but not correctly. My weather app just had a white box
with a little blue "i" in the corner. My analog clock would just have a
black face and a red second hand at 12 o'clock that never moved. I have
tried to uninstall and reinstall the gadgets, but with no luck. I have
tried a few command prompt .dll commands that I have read in forums, but
that didn't help. I read it might be an issue with IE8, so I downgraded
to IE7, but that still didn't help. I love the sidebar and want to use
it again, but nothing I do works! I also have an issue with my IE7. I
tried to sign up for these forums, but the image verification box
wouldn't show up until i tried it in Firefox. I use a browser called
Slimbrowser (which is based on IE I believe) and I would like to
continue using it, but it may be linked to my IE problem. Any help
someone could provide would be great.


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bloodomen18

 

Did you use the MCPR.exe (the official McAfee uninstaller) to uninstall
McAfee? If not, you are bound to have problems.


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whs

 

I believe I did. I went through the control panel and went to programs
and features and chose the program and hit uninstall. The program that
came up after seemed to be a McAfee uninstaller.


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bloodomen18

 

Have a look at this
tutorial:
HTH.


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brummyfan

Early Bird catches the worm but the Second Mouse gets the cheese.

 

I ran all of the commands in that tutorial and they were all successful.
Then I ran the test that was on there and that found no errors. I am
still having the same issues though. The sidebar starts fine, I can add
gadgets fine, it's just the gadgets are all messed up and not
functional.


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bloodomen18

 

Are you running your desktop at a high DPI setting? There seems to be a
known problem with sidebar, IE8 and a high desktop DPI setting. The
symptoms are not exactly the same as yours might it might be worth
checking out anyway.
Not sure if I can post links to other sites here, but just google for
IE8 sidebar DPI.

Thanks.


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MartinR

 

I found this in another thread :'How To Repair Your Crashed or Hanging
Vista Sidebar :: the How-To Geek'
()


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brummyfan

Early Bird catches the worm but the Second Mouse gets the cheese.