Comments on: Yahoo! Widgets Off the Screen! (And How to Get Them Back)

By: FT

FT — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:12:42 +0000

thanx x1.000.000 times!!!

By: SJ

SJ — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:47:01 +0000

I found this site looking for a method to find a missing widget, but I didn’t want to go edit the registry so I searched a bit more and came up with this answer that doesn’t require registry editing.

“I also use an extra monitor at work and this problem happens to me all the time.
But if you press F8, the key that is supposed to bring all widgets to front, you will see the bottom of your Weather Widget on the top of the screem. From there you can drag it back in the screen. Hope that helps ”

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:18:36 +0000

Awesome, this solved my problems!

Thanks

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:27:38 +0000

My Yahoo Weather moved off screen too for some odd reason and could not bring it back till I found your blog entry! THANK YOU!!! MUCH APPRECIATED for posting the solution!

By: Scuba Steve

Scuba Steve — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:40:47 +0000

I came across this post after I had the same problem and wanted to add something…

It seems that even if you go to the registry and make the change, the widget engine will re-record the current offscreen location of your widget when you close.

I was able to fix it by hitting ctrl-alt-delete and ending the process of the widget you are using. They are all called “YahooWidgets.exe” under the Processes tab so you may have to experiment a few times to find the right one.

Stop your lost widget’s process from here, then go to the registry and either delete the position or copy and paste the position of a working widget. Close registry editor and start the lost widget and it should show up again.

By: Ville Walveranta

Ville Walveranta — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:44:34 +0000

Hi Greg! Are you sure the missing widget is running and not just off the screen? I’ve had instances where a particular widget is just MIA – doesn’t start for no good reason.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:59:54 +0000

I tried this solution but no luck, the widget is off screen still. I even tried pasting the location of a visible widget in the registry but still no good.

It works fine on my desktop PC but not on my notebook.

Thinking the widget might be bad at the Yahoo site, I copied the one that works from my desktop PC to the notebook. That didn’t work either. Neither did deleting and reinstalling the widget after deleting the entire registry entry for it.

HELP!!!

The widget is Weatherbug.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:29:17 +0000

Thanks so much for this! I accidentally moved a widget to the side the pressed it’s “close drawer” button and it ended up moving off the screen. I was like… F********************CK!

But yeah. THanks!