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[ShinOrochiX]

Hi

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and everything went fine a restart was required so I restarted. Then I noticed that the NIS gadget from Windows Sidebar had disappeared, any way I can get the gadget back without re-installing NIS2010?

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

Hi ShinOrochiX,

We have had other posters who are missing their Norton gadget in Windows 7; please try out Wikipedian's solution over here:

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&message.id=89618#M89618

If this step doesn't work, then I am afraid to say that there is currently no solution, and the gadget continues missing even after reinstalling NIS (in Windows 7); please check this (unresolved) thread for more information:

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=90701

Message Edited by Yaso_Kuuhl on 12-27-2009 02:38 PM

[tyw7]

Am I the only one with Win7 X64 not affected by the missing gadget?

Message Edited by tyw7 on 12-27-2009 04:58 PM

[ShinOrochiX]

Hi,

The solution in the other posts did not work. Lets just hope that Symantec/Norton develop a fix for this, meanwhile I'll just have to stay with out the gadget. Thanks for the help anyway.

[bigwillokc]

I figured out what was going on in my case.  I wanted to run the Pandora gadget, which will only run in 32bit mode, so I added sidebar.exe from the x86 program files to startup.  As soon as i did that, pandora gadget and my other gadgets worked, but NIS gadget was gone.  I removed the 32bit sidebar.exe from startup and ran the sidebar.exe from the x64 folder and the NIS gadget was back.  Maybe the NIS gadget is 64bit only?

[TomV]

Hi ShinOrochiX,

Sorry to know that the Gadget isn't working.

Can you please let us know if you have any other gadgets installed. Also, can you check in the gadget gallery to see if you are able to launch it. 

Thanks,

TomV
Norton Forums Moderator

Symantec Corporation

[dbrisendine Norton Fighter]

Also check your \Program Files\WindowsSidebar\Gadgets to see if the Norton.Gadget is installed there.

[ShinOrochiX]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. These are the gadgets I have installed that currently work:

Clock 1.0.0.0

Weather 1.1.0.0

Slideshow 1.0.0.0

These are the ones that don't work after the upgrade to Windows 7:

Norton Gadget

TuneUp Utilities Gadget

When I open up the Gadget Gallery there is no Norton or TuneUp Gadget for me to add.

When I checked my C:\Program Files\WindowsSidebar\Gadgets folder there is no Norton or TuneUp Gadget there, I also checked the Shared Gadgets folder and that was empty. 

[mythbuster]

ShinOrochiX,

Looks like your gadget is lost while upgrading from vista to Win7. Did you try to uninstall and reinstall the product?

-MbR

[ShinOrochiX · Accepted solution]

Hi

I wanted to add new gadgets so I opened up the gadget gallery and to my surprise the Norton,TuneUp and all the other gadgets where there. I don't know how, i didnt do anything or re-install the product...