Widgets not loading/showing in Windows 11 - Install required dependencies

[kiddingguy]

On 17/03/2025 at 00:53, Dick Montage said:

So when I asked what you were running and you didn’t mention CCleaner…

I mentioned some of the software that was installed.
When reinstalling earlier today I came to notice the “special” place Ccleaner has in softwareland. Same goes for defragmentation tooling.

Like I said, Ccleaner was installed previously and I hadn’t had any issues with it, also regarding this topic, until earlier this week.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I specifically asked you about apps that messed with the UI and you outright said no.  Come on man, you.ve been here long enough to know better than this.

[kiddingguy]

On 17/03/2025 at 09:11, Dick Montage said:

I specifically asked you about apps that messed with the UI and you outright said no.  Come on man, you.ve been here long enough to know better than this.

The software I had installed, including CCleaner and others, have been on this/my system for ages. And I never had any problems with this. So it didn’t cross my mind in such a way. My excuses if it came across this way.

Yesterday I was thinking that if the latest MS update kinda is bogus, to uninstall that one. No success.

Than I thought that maybe Cc - despite  only using the temp-files deletion - might something has to do with it. Mainly because a pop-up op Speccy mentioned an invalid CPU-Z file that could interfere.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Well, I'm glad that, despite me trying to steer you this way a number of times and you outright stating you did nothing that messes with the OS, you got to the source of your issue. 

[kiddingguy]

On 17/03/2025 at 10:58, Dick Montage said:

Well, I'm glad that, despite me trying to steer you this way a number of times and you outright stating you did nothing that messes with the OS, you got to the source of your issue. 

Last time(s) after 24 hours of installation the widgets went missing. I will let you know tonight if they are still there, or are deleted once again.

[kiddingguy]

On 17/03/2025 at 12:42, kiddingguy said:

Last time(s) after 24 hours of installation the widgets went missing. I will let you know tonight if they are still there, or are deleted once again.

Looks like the widgets are still there. Yeah!! 

[hellowalkman Reporter]

Nice! Glad it worked out finally!

[kiddingguy]

On 17/03/2025 at 21:23, hellowalkman said:

Nice! Glad it worked out finally!

Indeed. Let's hope it stays this way... keep you guys updated in a couple of days.

Thx so far for all your help @Dick Montage@hellowalkman@adrynalyne !!

[kiddingguy]

So I thought... let's download and play Call of Duty.

I installed battle.net and Black Ops 6.

Rebooted... and bang, the widgets are gone. Again. That's the only change to the setup of yesterday. And widgets were shown when I booted up before 8.00 AM.

Uninstalling battle.net and CoD didn't help, and now I'm stuck again with no widgets.

Strange/'funny' thing is, that is occurs around the same time as two days again... around 8.00-8.10 AM.

 

EDIT:
Going back to a system restore point cannot be done, because the latest has been created after initial installation (2 days ago) and with lots of programs & settings affected.

Edited March 18, 2025 by kiddingguy

[kiddingguy]

For the zillionth time reinstalled again    This time (also) without battle.net & CoD. I guess it won't be played anymore soon...

Hopefully it's now working. Also in two days from now and later.

[hellowalkman Reporter]

do you absolutely need widgets?

[kiddingguy]

On 18/03/2025 at 14:02, hellowalkman said:

do you absolutely need widgets?

It’s handy for the temperature.

… and some gossip/news 😉

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

On 18/03/2025 at 14:26, kiddingguy said:

It’s handy for the temperature.

… and some gossip/news 😉

Moreover, any issue at that level can maybe just be symptoms of a problem elsewhere.  It is correct to expect your OS and 1st party tools to work.

[kiddingguy]

It kind of looks like after 2 days on installation, around 8.00-8.15 AM, the widgets will break.

I won’t install anything now, let my notebook run for this period of time. And get back to this thread tomorrow morning and Thursday. Let’s see what happens.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Just a thought... IF they break again, do a reboot.  What I'm getting at is this: Are they permanently broken or temporarily...

[kiddingguy]

On 18/03/2025 at 17:14, Dick Montage said:

Just a thought... IF they break again, do a reboot.  What I'm getting at is this: Are they permanently broken or temporarily...

Permanently. Rebooting is what I have done in the first place(s).

Unfortunately that didn't work.

Thing is... these widgets are not displayed for a reason, right? Might be something bogus within Windows, might be a 2-day-bug after installation... I don't know, but I do know that it shouldn't be 

[kiddingguy]

Update as of today: still got the widgets 

"even" with the new nvidia drivers installed

[kiddingguy]

Widgets are still there 

Looks like everything worked out in the end (without battle.net, and maybe also CCleaner and O&O Defrag). Guess I won't be needed these anymore/anytime soon.

Though I think the real culprit is in battle.net (but won't challenge this now by installing it again)...

[skinnyJM]

Glad to hear everything seems to be OK now, I know how frustrating it is when a clean install doesn't go well when they're suppose to. I am still curious so may I ask the source of the ISO used for the install? Was it a Microsoft download or created with UUP dump or ???

[kiddingguy]

On 24/03/2025 at 02:03, skinnyJM said:

Glad to hear everything seems to be OK now, I know how frustrating it is when a clean install doesn't go well when they're suppose to. I am still curious so may I ask the source of the ISO used for the install? Was it a Microsoft download or created with UUP dump or ???

An official MCT-tool file download from the Microsoft page. Put onto a 32 GB formatted (Sandisk) USB-drive.

But like I said; widgets were working until I installed “some” software at the end. I guess it’s battle.net/CoD, or maybe CCleaner (O&O Defrag). Though on previous installations these ran fine incl. widgets. It also might be a Windows thing, because Settlers New Allies is not running, and when uninstalling a previous Windows Update that game runs again.

Edited March 24, 2025 by kiddingguy

[kiddingguy]

I just read a thread here on reddit where it mentions a 'bogus' update maybe on CCleaner. So maybe this was also the case on my system.

Anyways... still happy with my widgets still working! 

Maybe it's even save to install battle.net and COD. What do you guys think? Should I give it a spin, or just let it rest for now. Or maybe install it after next Tuesday with the & latest Patch Tuesday updates to W11 [hopefully that changes something]...?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

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