Fix Windows 7 Sidebar & Gadgets Not Working When UAC is Disabled

written by Sandip on January 22, 2009
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Windows 7 Desktop Gadget

Windows 7 Sidebar has significant change then windows vista. Windows Vista sidebar was completely independent of user account control. However in windows 7 sidebar with gadget and UAC are related means if you turn of or disable UAC in windows 7 then sidebar will not work.

This has been done to prevent users from installing any malicious unsigned desktop gadget in windows 7. Since most of the users prefer to keep User Account control (UAC) disabled, they wont be able to enjoy desktop gadgets and sidebar in windows 7, well here is small work around basically a registry hack to make windows 7 sidebar with gadget to work when UAC is disabled or turned off.

How to Enable Sidebar & Desktop Gadget with Disable/Turned Off UAC in windows 7

1. Click on start and type regedit on search bar

2. Now navigate to follow registry key in left pan of registry editor

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Sidebar\Settings

3. Right Click in right pan of registry editor to Create A New DWORD(32 Bit Value) with name “AllowElevatedProcess” and set value as “1”.

4. Now close registry editor

5. Right click on desktop and add desktop gadgets to confirm Desktop gadget and sidebar working properly

You can download AllowElevatedProcess.reg and double click on AllowElevatedProcess.reg file to add registry entry.

Windows 7 Sidebar with Desktop Gadget

Windows 7 Sidebar with Desktop Gadget

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Reader Comments

Thank you for this fix my friend, great instructions. I am using Win 7 64 bit with 8GB of ram and love it, so much better than Vista already and blazing fast. I have not experienced any issues at all except for this sidebar thing. It will be another mistake if they disable the sidebar when disabling UAC. I hate the UAC but am sure it will be useful to some. Thanks again!

Written By Joe Young
on January 24th, 2009

Thank U from Russia! :)

Written By Nikita
on January 25th, 2009

Thx for help even thoug i am drunk, very helpfull. Buuuurp

Written By Beerbellybilly
on January 25th, 2009

Thank you very much, works like a charm!

I’m in agreement with many others, so far I’m enjoying W7 more than Vista and I’ve been using V for quite sometime. The easy accessibility of the wireless networks and option of adding admin rights to temporary tasks is a major upgrade.

UAC removal took me a second to figure out, but once that was over, it’s been a great experience so far.

Written By SmoakThatBowl
on January 25th, 2009

Thanks!! That was driving me nuts trying to figure out how to get those things back on!!

Written By Troy
on January 26th, 2009

Now if I can just figure out how to get 32 bit flash gadgets to work. I love the weather addon called “Pro Weather”, but can’t get it to work in Windows 7. :(

Written By Mictain
on January 27th, 2009

Thanks a lot! You saved a lot of my nerves :-)))

Written By Stef
on January 30th, 2009

thank u!!!

Written By Ahish
on February 8th, 2009

Thanks for this.

I Download the utilities and save this page, First thing to do when I arrive home is try it.

:)

Written By Alex Jorge
on February 10th, 2009

/quote
Now if I can just figure out how to get 32 bit flash gadgets to work. I love the weather addon called “Pro Weather”, but can’t get it to work in Windows 7. :(
/quote

Forgot to mention…I’m running 64 bit Windows 7

Written By Mictain
on February 12th, 2009

its work 100%

big thanks

Written By Jubran
on February 13th, 2009

working and simple tutorial. nice dude

Written By itchan
on February 15th, 2009

Thanks you rock

Written By Cap’n Jack Burntbeard
on February 16th, 2009

WOW, thank you SO MUCH for this!!!!!!!!!! 100% satisfied with this solution! I’ve been so mad at it not working, and now it does. Do you think you could fix my tuner card that doesn’t work now? (it worked for a week or so then decided to not work).

Thanks again!

Written By Britney
on February 27th, 2009

worked perfectly on win 7 beta via boot camp on osx leopard.

thanks.

Written By .c
on March 13th, 2009

Thank’s a heap mate, i thought my beta was rooted. Thanks for the solution!

Written By Blake Woodington
on March 21st, 2009

Thanks so much, it is very appreciated i do a lot of OC’ing and my desktop gadgets help me keep on eye on my CPU vitals :D

Best tutorial I have ever seen :D

Written By N1C3
on March 26th, 2009

Nice work around, this exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Written By Nick
on April 10th, 2009

thanks it worked……..

Written By darshan
on April 22nd, 2009

nice tutorial, is it ok if i post this article to mine for my archive?

Written By nurul
on April 26th, 2009

Thank you!Yes I got it
You’re the best!!!

Written By Fabiano Brazil
on April 26th, 2009

good work…
Thanks.. Worked fine

Written By Ran
on April 29th, 2009

tnx sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much:X:X:X:X:X:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Written By Saman
on May 25th, 2009

you are a goddess
thanx

Written By kurt80
on May 26th, 2009

your explanation is stupid.

i am also using win 7 with uac disabled. but it works fine. maybe some problem with ur build

Written By gautham
on August 21st, 2009

thnx

Written By kostas
on September 18th, 2009

Is there anyway to make the “sidebar” not run on startup… msconfig doesn’t give me any option and the program itself doesn’t either. Thanks in advance…

Written By Britney
on September 20th, 2009

Thanx from Greece

Written By Yannis
on October 8th, 2009

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