Some users say that gadgets work fine again when they change the DPI (Display Size Settings) to 100% Smaller Fonts. How you do that is described here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/443-dpi-display-size-settings-change.html
My Windows 7 weather gadget on my desktop has changed color
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
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After installing Internet Explorer 11 via Windows Update, I restarted the computer and my weather gadget had turned pink and blurry. Did I do something wrong? Any help would be nice.
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Anonymous
2013-12-03T14:30:40+00:00 Thanks for this great info, but rather than deleting the autoscale row in the gadget.xml file, why not just comment it out? I would have thought the standard XML comment symbols, <!-- and -->, would do the trick just fine. And this way, if Microsoft ever get round to fixing their IE11 gadgets problem, it will be easy to restore the original line.
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Anonymous
2013-11-30T05:44:00+00:00 You're welcome :)
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![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(272, 44%, 36%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EL%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
LemP 74,990 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2013-11-29T20:27:43+00:00 Ghacks reader DrDivan55 found a way to resolve the issue for individual gadgets without having to modify the system's DPI setting in the process.
Thanks, Julia
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Anonymous
2013-11-18T22:18:57+00:00 Just had the same problem with IE11 and the display of Weather Gadget. If you reduce the screen dpi from 125% to 100%, it displays OK.
Now if you would prefer a larger screen DPI then you need to make the manual selection and change it to 119%, this worked for me. The screen icons and details are still a reasonable size and the weather gadget works and displays as before.
Give it a try, it might be the compromise that will work for you.