motogobi » Windows 7 http://www.motogobi.com gobi, mobilized Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:37:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Allowing Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets to run with UAC off http://www.motogobi.com/2009/02/05/allowing-windows-7-desktop-gadgets-to-run-with-uac-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=allowing-windows-7-desktop-gadgets-to-run-with-uac-off http://www.motogobi.com/2009/02/05/allowing-windows-7-desktop-gadgets-to-run-with-uac-off/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:31:40 +0000 mike http://www.motogobi.com/?p=216 No gadgets here!I have no idea how I missed this – I guess I keep my desktop too cluttered up with stuff to notice? I’ve been running Windows 7 since it was released as Beta and love it. Enough so that the next laptop most likely will be a PC? (gasp!) Anyhoo, I had disabled User Account Control in Windows 7 simply because I’ve honestly never run into an issue in the past on non-UAC-enabled Windows versions like XP – read: I have no problem running everything as administrator. But disabling UAC ended up closing all my gadgets. And I’ve liked gadgets in the past and I want them back. How do you do it? Via the registry, of course.

Fire up regedit and navigate to:

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

Create a new DWORD (not a 64-bit QWORD) named AllowElevatedProcess. Set that value to 1 and close regedit. No need to reboot or anything. Go back to Control Panel, and gadgetize-away.

Gadgets are back!

Take this all with a grain of salt, as there are those that view this issue as a major security flaw: Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta.

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