Vista: Restore the Default Sidebar Gadgets
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Vista Vista comes with some default gadgets for the Windows Sidebar, including clock, calendar, contacts, currency, feed headlines, cpu meter, weather, stocks, notes, slide show and picture puzzle. If you accidentally delete one of the default gadgets and you’re wishing you had it back, follow this Tech-Recipe.
1. Right-click the sidebar, and select Properties.
2. When the Windows Sidebar Properties window appears, go to the Maintenance section and click the Restore gadgets installed with Windows button.
3. Click the OK button.
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Emily said on October 25, 2008
Thankyou!! I was lost without my calendar & had no idea how to replace it!!!
KAP said on December 7, 2008
My “restore gadgets installed with windows” area is grayed out -under maintenance.
What do I do? or where do I redownload the package again?
Geoffrey said on December 7, 2008
Thank you MR/Mrs Techy. Been trying to find out how to restore my gadget.
HF said on December 22, 2008
OH MY GOD…. Thank you so much!!! My mom wanted her daisy clock back and it cost me $200 to take the train from Toronto to Windsor just to fix this thing!
Anonymous said on April 1, 2010
i would like the restore clock
Taryn said on September 16, 2010
Hi my “restore gadgets installed with windows” is grayed out. and it won’t let me click it.. what’s wrong?
Ga628 said on October 27, 2010
Me too. Same problem. All gadgets destroyed, I cant do nothing with them. :(
Duane444 said on November 28, 2010
just as Taryn chatted, my “restore gadgets installed with windows” is grayed out also and will not let me click it. How can I correct this? Also when I added a calendar to the sidebar it does not show the day or date….only a orange square.
Advnturous said on January 14, 2011
I followed this instruction and I was able to get my “clock” back, however it is an empty shell of a clock, without the numbers-just a round circle with hands that don’t work….what else can I do to restore my gadgets? My Norton “Protected” emblem in the gadget window is not showing either like before-all it says is “status now in small print with a circle that goes around…?? Any help please? :)
Keith said on January 9, 2012
Thanks, I restored “currency” using your advice.
However, I still can’t get it to work “bad number” appears instead of the actual currency figures.