Thank you for the suggestion. My settings were already at that level.

Some gadgets, such as K-Tek clock, do not even start, clicking the exe file does nothing. Others, such as Pirate clock, attempt to start and a message box pops up indicating the program has stopped working.
I do not have DesktopX installed on this machine and have therefor not tried Widgets.

Thanks again. I realize Vad's expertise in this area, in fact I am using SD Desktop on my laptop, but I am reluctant to start running registry-changing commands I know little about based on that one thread.

I intend to purchase the new Desktop X when it is released and I think I will wait until then before I do anything else. Assumedly if that registry change is required, Stardock will be making it via their product release. I do appreciate your suggestion though but my experience with Vista leaves me very cautious.

Thanks to both who offered help. I had failed to reboot when I enabled UAC. I have enabled and rebooted and all is well. Thanks again.