Thanks for providing the information.
The reasons I can imagine why objects/widgets/gadgets wouldn't be showing up are
- Coordinates off-screen (as Zubaz mentioned)
- Opacity set to a less-than-visible amount
- Visible attribute set to False
As the problem you've mentioned does seem to be affected whether WB is loaded, that sounds like a clear concern of some kind of incompatibility.
I have run DesktopX items here without a problem myself, however, and I'm using WB 6 on all of my machines.
One other thing to try -- hold down the CTRL key while launching a widget. Does that have any effect?
shortcut_: This sounds like it may be something associated with that particular widget. When you go into builder mode and bring up the object navigator (right click the system tray icon and choose List Objects), the values you will want to make sure are within your screen's resolution are under the X and Y columns. Just click on the number there and you can edit it. Press Enter when you're done.
-Mike
[Stardock Support]