Gadget OPACITY Issue

Thursday, March 11, 2010 by RomanDA | Discussion: DesktopX

I'm sure someone else has to have run into this, and has the answer.

 

I have a gadget that does not have a tray or a taskbar icon and it's Opacity has been set to 0.  So its invisible, loads at startup, and cannot be seen or moved or edited in any way. 

So the q is a simple one.. WHERE is this opacity setting stored and how the heck to i change it back to 100%?

 

Thanks.

c242
Reply #1 Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:28 PM

I have looked for that setting to be setup via script object properties, but I doubt it is there.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #2 Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:21 PM

delete the cache and let the settings reset?

RomanDA
Reply #3 Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:08 PM

IR, good idea.. will try that.. have to find where it puts the cache on a machine that doesnt have DX on it, just this gadget.

RedneckDude
Reply #4 Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:19 PM

[quote who="I.R. Brainiac" reply="2" id="2561809"]delete the cache and let the settings reset?
[/quote]

That won't work. Wizard1956 had this same sort of problem and Roscoe came up with the fix. Has something to do with a registry edit. Wizard is looking into it, it will be in one of his posts.

Wizard1956
Reply #5 Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:28 PM

I'm not sure if it will apply in your case,as my problem was location,location,location but you may want to check out reply #16 on THIS thread. The trans setting may be saved in the registry as well.

I.R. Brainiac
Reply #6 Monday, March 15, 2010 3:47 PM

machine that doesnt have DX
ohhhhhh...well thats entirely a different thang.

RomanDA
Reply #7 Monday, March 15, 2010 4:52 PM

IR, thats the whole issue, this is on a machine we use for our control system, and so i have no idea where to look for the cache, etc.  I did email support at SD, but have not heard anything in a over a week.

RedneckDude
Reply #8 Monday, March 15, 2010 5:24 PM

RomanDA
IR, thats the whole issue, this is on a machine we use for our control system, and so i have no idea where to look for the cache, etc.  I did email support at SD, but have not heard anything in a over a week.

Have you checked the link in Wiz's reply? RoscoeP. fixed it for him....

RomanDA
Reply #9 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:30 PM

yep, i searched all thru the reg.  must be missing it somewhere.

Cavan1
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:44 PM

Hey Roman, have you tried to remove it from start-up thru msconfig, reboot then reload gadget to see if you can see/access it.

RedneckDude
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:02 PM

David, what OS?

I found the gadget cache on XP with no DX installed, and it contains a document called Preferences.xml.

This is what it looks like.

 

 

RedneckDude
Reply #12 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:02 PM

David, found it here in Win 7.

 

D:\Users\Jim Dillard\AppData\Local\Stardock\DesktopX\GadgetCache\Aero Station Clock Gadget\Preferences.xml

RedneckDude
Reply #13 Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:15 PM

David, I was able to edit the XML file on 7 to make it all but vanish and then bring it back. You may need to show hidden files and folders to find it. Or unhide system files. Here is a link to the XML editor by Microsoft.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&displaylang=en

RomanDA
Reply #14 Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:39 PM

lol... i was working on a machine today at the plant, i loaded my Drop Info on it, and seached for "stardock" and there it was, right were you show it above.  Thanks..  Shame its so hard to find.

RedneckDude
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:03 PM

RomanDA
lol... i was working on a machine today at the plant, i loaded my Drop Info on it, and seached for "stardock" and there it was, right were you show it above.  Thanks..  Shame its so hard to find.

 

So you got it fixed? I'm hoping so.  Good deal!  

RomanDA
Reply #16 Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:35 PM

im not near the machine that messed up, its at the office and im not.  will look at it next week (if i make it back to the office before the equipment ships).

 

Thanks for the input all.

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