[Islandboy]

been trying all day to resolve this and YOUR solution was the one that worked! great info...THANKS!

[grafcable]

Still waiting for another solution

[lauraflem]

I think you've done it correctly. I just fixed the problem on this computer by following the same directions. (BTW - THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the instructions!) The last command gave me an error message, but it worked regardless when I rebooted.
I'm fairly experienced in computers and can't believe it took so long to find a solution. The java scripts were the problem for me. Should have come to this site first!

[Oscar_AIK]

I have also problems whit the sidebar. But my sidebar is all gone! I cant see it. Please help!

[BigG3206]

bustanut-

thanks for the fix!!

[emcatalyst]

going to java.com and installing java, solved this problem for me!

[tomcatGB]

int1422 many thanks for your 'fix' for the sidebar, I have no idea what happened it had vanished along with the sidebar icon but using your suggested fix it worked...

This is what worked for me and the sidebar is back....

1. Open a command prompt by being Administrator (Right click on Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator)
2. CD c:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar ........(CD is a DOS COMMAND for CHANGE DIRECTORY )
3. Run these commands in this order:
1. regsvr32 -u sbdrop.dll
2. regsvr32 -u wlsrvc.dll
3. regsvr32 atl.dll
4. regsvr32 sbdrop.dll
5. regsvr32 wlsrvc.dll

Thanks to int1422 for the above fix which worked for me.

Steve

[rfidler]

If you follow the solution and find the dllreistrationserver (listed in error message) croaks when trying to reg the dlls, turn off user account control (uac), reboot and then try again.

Worked for me after uninstalling Kaspersky 7.0

[Amer Tahle]

I had the same problem after i install a Mcafee update but i didnt need to reinstall java, i just did the cmd thing and i restarted the computer and it work out.
Not only the sidebar didnt work olso the Mcafee uninstallation programme and some features in the internet explorer too.
Now everything is working very well. Thanks

[CKW10683]

Hello everyone, I had this same problem with the Windows sidebar gadgets showing up as white blocks about 6 months ago and it suddenly fixed itself the next day for some reason. But after installing SP1 yesterday the same problem came back and it won't go away. But this problem goes beyond the sidebar gadgets as features like YouTube Flash videos and Google Image search results don't show up. AIM text doesn't show up in the IM boxes either. I've applied all of the fixes mentioned in this thread (command prompt .dlls, resetting IE7, reinstalling Java, etc) and none of them have fixed the problem. Anyone know what is causing this? I really don't want to have to restore my entire laptop .