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Windows 7 problem?

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I have used Core Temp for some time and have been very happy with it and I was annoyed when Microsoft arbitrarily removed gadget functionality. Recently, for some reason or other, I lost the Core Temp gadget although CoreTemp itself is fine, currently Ver 1.4-64 bit. I have downloaded Ver 2.8 of the gadget and placed CoreTempGadget2.8.gadget in a CoreTempGadget subdirectory of Plugins which itself is a subdirectory of Core Temp. All as per the FAQ.

The gadget no longer starts on boot up and in order to get it to work I have to right click the screen, select gadgets and double click Core Temp. This brings up The Core Temp gadget. However, I cannot open the options menu and if I try I get an error message that Core Temp is not running despite the temperatures showing in the toolbar. Also, the error message seems to show that Core Temp Gadget v2.7 is running.

Have I done something wrong, or is this some shenanighins on the part of Microsoft :evil:

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What I suggest you do is after you restart the system, go into the gadgets drawer, right click the Core Temp gadget and uninstall it.
The new version is very easy to install, since it's not a Core Temp plugin, all you have to do is double click on the .gadget file to install it.
Make sure that you have .Net 3.5 enabled in 'Turn Windows features on or off'.
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I have followed your instructions. Found CoreTemGadget2.8.gadget (414kb) double clicked, asked if I wanted to install, clicked yes. Nothing.
Went back to gadgets menuu, Core Temp Gadget had reappeared. Opened Core Temp Gadget, same as before, ver 2.7? Says at bthe bottom of the gadget "Version 2.8 is available" :(

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OK. I've now enabled net 3.5, deleted the gadget, double clicked on CoreTempGadget2.8.gadget and clicked Yes to install. Nada, except that now Core Temp Gadget is no longer in my gadgets so I can't even open ver. 2.7

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Something must have gone wrong with the Gadget system in your Windows install. You can try to install the gadget manually:
The '.gadget' file is a simple zip file, so you can use winrar, 7zip, etc. to extract it to a folder, 'coretempgadget28.gadget' (it has to have the .gadget suffix).
Then place it in C:\Users\*your-username*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets.
Open the gadget drawer again normally, it should be there, I hope.
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Nope ;( I have four subdirectories in Windows Sidebar/Gadgets, they all have the suffix .gadget. All four also have a common file "gadget.xml". I have placed a copy of CoreTempGadget2.8.gadget in Windows Sidebar/Gadgets and rebooted to no avail. This is getting very frustrating.

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I'm sorry to say, I don't know what is wrong on your system. This 'manual' installation should've worked.
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (True Spirit 140 Direct) / Mobo: Asrock Fatal1ty X470 / EVO 970 500GB + WD Blue 250GB + HDD / GPU: Dell RX 570 4GB / Mem: 2x16GB DDR4-3200 G.Skill 32GTZKW TridentZ - 32GB total / PSU: Seasonic Prime Ultra Gold 650W
NAS:
Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz @ 4.3GHz (Scythe Mugen2) / Mobo: Biostar TP67XE / 2x Inland Pro 120GB + HDDs / GPU: ATi Mach64 VT2 / Mem: 4x4GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill 8GBXL RipJawsX - 16GB total / PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W.
Secondary rigs:
Core i3 7130U / MiniPC / SanDisk SDSSDP-128G / GPU: Intel HD 620 / Mem: 1x8GB DDR3L-1600
Xeon X3430 2.40GHz @ 3.06GHz or Core i3 540 3.06GHz @ 4.0GHz (Freezer 7 Pro) / Mobo: MSI H55M-ED55 / PNY CS1111 240GB / GPU: ATI FirePro V3800 / Mem: 4x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill 4GBRL RipJaws - 8GB total / PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W
AMD Phenom II X4 B93 / Mobo: ASUS M2A-VM / GPU: ATI Radeon Xpress X1250 / Crucial M4 120GB / Mem: 2x2GB DDR2-800 - 4GB total / PSU: Antec 380W.

Core Temp - Accurate temperature monitor for Intel's Core/Core 2 and AMD64 processors

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