Just fix it and have your gadgets even when you keep your UAC turned off. It is very much frustrating task to reboot, if you want your gadgets visible on the desktop. To appear the gadgets again on the desktop, you need to turn the UAC settings on. In Windows 7, if you turn your UAC settings completely off, the gadgets get disappeared. The gadgets are incompatible with certain User Account Control (UAC) settings. They are just as customizable and functions exactly the same as they work in Windows Vista.Įven Windows 7 beta seems far better for most of the functions as compared to its predecessors, but still there are few peculiarities in Windows 7 and gadgets are no exception to this. In the beta version of Windows 7, eight default gadgets will get installed on installing Windows 7 operating system: Calendar, CPU Meter, Clock, Currency, Feed Headlines, Picture Puzzle, Slide Show, Stocks, Media Center and Weather. Windows 7, the latest operating system, has eliminated the Windows Sidebar and placed the gadgets directly on to the desktop.