For those that enjoy the features offered by the Yahoo! Widgets you might at some point find yourself in a situation similar to what I experienced today. Somehow, perhaps with my two monitor goodness, and goofing that up by logging into our VPN, I tried to open up the Converter widget, and it never showed up on the screen.
After a bit of digging I at least found out how to reset the widget’s position, even though I didn’t find out why it disappeared. If you find that launching a widget gives you a non-visible widget, you may wish to try the following.
- Open Regedit (Start -> Run -> Regedit)
- Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\WidgetEngine
- Find the folder with the name of the widget. Under this folder will likely be a folder named Windows.
- Under the Windows folder there should be a main folder. Open this.
- Delete the key named Positions
- Restart the widget
Good widgeting!