Widget Disappeared!

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This has me baffled and I'm sure the solution is right in front of me but I'll be darned if I can figure this out.

I had the Live Weather II widget running and then my 2 year old got onto my comp unmonitored (1st mistake!) When I came back I noticed everything was everywhere and Live Weather was gone. No problem I thought, and I went to restart it. Unfortunately, it was already running ... somewhere.

Try as I might, I cannot get this widget back into visual. I cleared the widget cache in hopes that once restarted it would show up in the middle of the screen again...nope. It starts and runs but who knows where! I figured he might've moved it to an extreme border on the screen so I have meticuously (sp?) clicked and dragged from the borders in hopes to drag it back...nope.

I even cleared the cache, deleted the widget from Desktop X and restarted my comp. After reboot, I downloaded Live W. again and it starts (like always, I know it's running from Ctrl+Alt+Del (windows task manager) and also the widget shows up in the taskbar on the bottom. But it is nowhere on the screen. IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!!

Any ideas/solutions would be greatly appreciated!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First, try loading up the widget so it appears to be running, then hit F10 a few times.

And if that doesn't work...

Here's something else you can try. Open DesktopX Builder to an empty desktop, and import the Live Weather II widget.

From the Desktoptab of the Settings Panel, or by right clicking icon in systray, you can get an object list.

On that list find the object with ObjectID "grp_smallweatherBase"

Check in the X and Y columns of the Object Navigator list, and verify that those X an Y coordinates should place the object on screen (not negative, not higher than resolution). Also check these numbers for the "weather_back" object. You can edit these right there on the list.

Finally, if those should be visible and just aren't, double click the objects to open Properties and verify Visible: Yes is selected on Relations tab.

I have had all of these help in somewhat similar situations! Hope one works for you.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just had this happen recently and all the usual ( clear cache , import/export ) nothing worked . I'm sure what I did was exactly what Rabid had already said..

I simply imported another widget - on the task bar i brought up the " List Objects " and noted the numbers the X and Y Values were at. Closed it and imported the one I couldn't find - then brought up the " List Objects " and changed the X and Y coordinates to the numbers I had from the other widget and lo and behold - it appeared like magic. Then export it back to widgets but rename it slightly different so cache won't bring up old settings.

I know this translates to what Rabid said..just said a bit different.

Btw - the widget i lost somehow the X value had a 1 added to the other 3 numbers causing it to be lost in the Widget Twilight zone. How it happened ? Hellifino.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have had that same thing happen with that weather widget, and I still haven't figured out why.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
rabidrobot, thanks!!

You are a scholar and a gentleman, something interesting though.

I started with the 'grp_smallweatherBase' and noticed the X coordinate was at 1310 (out of the 1280 range obviously) so I switched it. But still no widget, so I moved the 'weather-back' coordinates and voila! But then I right clicked on it to make sure it loaded every time at bootup and got this funky menu (obviously associated to the 'weather_back' and not the actual widget because then I tried moving it and had 2 Live Weathers showing, one was the actual widget and the other was the weather_back - after fiddling around awhile I got them to merge (don't know exactly what I did) but everything is status quo again!

So, thanks for the help/comments rabid and fairyy, appreciated!