I applied the Fix It 50907 provided in the KB article and rebooted. Nothing appeared to have changed. The three gadgets that had previously been on this computer (Norton Security, Calendar, and Clock) continued to appear and operate normally. I verified the Fix It had been installed by checking the log in Event Viewer. I then implemented the workaround in the TechNet article by editing the registry, and after a reboot the gadgets no longer appear. This is the result I expected after applying the Fix It. Just passing this along as it appears that the Fix It doesn't actually disable the gadgets.

Hi Rip VanWrinkled, The Fix It workarounds present in the following knowledge base article appear to have been mis-labelled: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2719662 Using the Disable Workaround (Fix it 50906) had the intended effect of disabling the Windows Sidebar/gadgets in an identical fashion to the registry workaround that I also tried. I had initially used Fix it 50907 as you did. I assumed enabling the workaround would disable the gadgets functionality as expected. Expected Behavior: Fix it 50907 should disable the Windows Sidebar and gadgets as expected and detailed in the Security Advisory (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2719662 ) i.e. it should create the following registry key and Dword data type Actual Behavior: Fix it 50907 actually re-enables the Windows Sidebar and gadgets functionality: i.e. it removes the following registry key and Dword data type: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Windows\Sidebar] "TurnOffSidebar"=dword:00000001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @Microsoft: I would suggest re-labelling these Fix it .msi files to correct the above error. I have verified the above behavior on 2x Windows 7 64 bit SP1 PCs. If you require any further information, please let me know. Thank you.

James is right. The buttons were mis-labelled. The article has been corrected: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2719662 Enable Disable <style>a.button { background: url(/library/images/support/KBGraphics/PUBLIC/cn/FixItButton.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; width: 139px; height: 56px; display:block; cursor:pointer; } a.button:hover { background-position: bottom right; } </style> Disable Windows Sidebar and Gadgets Microsoft Fix it 50906 <style>a.button { background: url(/library/images/support/KBGraphics/PUBLIC/cn/FixItButton.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; width: 139px; height: 56px; display:block; cursor:pointer; } a.button:hover { background-position: bottom right; } </style> Enable Windows Sidebar and Gadgets Microsoft Fix it 50907 Darryl Gittins

Microsoft Security Advisory (2719662) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/advisory/2719662Ivan-Liu TechNet Community Support

In your post look at the headers at the top and compare them to the highlighted text near the bottom. This sure clears it up. gary smithGary L Smith

Thanks. But the text ABOVE the buttons still reads very confusingly, as it reads ENABLE above 50906. Must users will not know that it's actually the FixIt they are enabling, which will DISABLE Windows Gadgets. @Microsoft: Please re-word the Labels ABOVE the FixIt buttons for clarity. Thanks!