Tasks gadget for Outlook 2010

Applied to: Windows Vista, Windows 7

If you're using Outlook 2010 and you want to have desktop gadget for Outlook Appoitment and Outlook Tasks from the gadget gallery, you'll find that they are only compatible with Outlook 2007. To fix that you need to make few changes to the gadget scripts.

This method below is proved to be 100% compatible with Outlook 2010.

1. Download and Install Outlook Upcoming Appointments or Outlook Tasks gadget.
   After installing you'll get "This gadget requires Microsoft Outlook 2007."' so here's how to fix:
2. In explorer or cmd go to "C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets" then go to either OutlookAppointmentsGadget.gadget or OutlookTasksGadget.gadget.
3. Edit with Notepad or your favorite text editor (mine is Notepad2) en-US\js\outlook.vbs.
   Change in line 22:

if value = "Outlook.Application.12" then

to

if value = "Outlook.Application.14" then

again in line 45 change

if mid(versionString, 1, 2) <> "12" then

to

if mid(versionString, 1, 2) <> "14" then

That's it. Now you can simply close the gadget and open it again.