For some reason the gadgets in windows 7 are not working properly. I can open the gadget gallery and select a gadget, but it doesn't show the entire thing. For example i select the clock, and all it shows is a black square with the red ticking hand frozen. Another example is the CPU meter. All it shows when i click on it is a little white square where the meter should be. I can still close the gadgets by way of the close button on each gadget though (the calendar doesn't appear at all). UAC is turned on and i have rebooted the pc, same thing still happening. If anyone could help that would be great! also i have tried the startup soln but it didnt work out... pls help out.

Try reinstalling gadget as described in the following post: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/43095d0f-8775-40e9-bd12-825bbedc0f19 Hope this helps.

didnt work