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


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  On 16/03/2025 at 23:53, Dick Montage said:

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

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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.

  On 17/03/2025 at 08:11, 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.

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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.

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.  :)

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  On 17/03/2025 at 09:58, 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.  :)

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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.

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  On 17/03/2025 at 11:42, 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.

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Looks like the widgets are still there. Yeah!! :woot:

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  On 17/03/2025 at 20:23, hellowalkman said:

Nice! Glad it worked out finally! :)

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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 !!

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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.

 

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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.

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For the zillionth time reinstalled again :angry::cry:   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.

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

It’s handy for the temperature.

… and some gossip/news 😉

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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.

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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.

  On 18/03/2025 at 16:14, 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...

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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 :ninja:

Widgets are still there :D

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)...

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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 ???

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  On 24/03/2025 at 01:03, 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 ???

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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.

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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! :jump:

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]...?

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