I often encounter this question, so I thought I’d write up a quick post on how to delete a gadget in iGoogle.
There are two ways.
Each gadget has a two icons in the top right corner of the title bar. Clicking the “arrow” icon on the left reveals a dropdown menu with ‘Delete this gadget’ as an option among others, which I will explain at some later date.
The second way to delete a gadget is by editing the Tab to which the gadget belongs. This is sometimes the only way to delete a gadget…gadgets with an apostrophe in their title break the dropdown menu mentioned in the first option. Anyhow, each tab has a similar arrow icon that reveals a dropdown menu when clicked. From there, choose ‘Edit this tab’ which will pull up a page where you can delete the gadgets on that tab.
May 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I tried both ways listed above. After I deleted and refreshed my home page they were there again. I also tried to go into preferences and clicked home page to make the current page without the gadgets I just deleted as my new home page and nothing happened. Please help.
Thank you. Melanie
May 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I tried both ways listed above. After I deleted and refreshed my home page they were there again. I also tried to go into preferences and clicked home page to make the current page without the gadgets I just deleted as my new home page and nothing happened. Please help.
Thank you. Melanie
BTW, I may have sent this twice!!!
August 21st, 2009 at 12:33 am
i am going crazy HELP ME DELETE ALL THESE GADGET PLZ I CANT DOIT U SAY HOW TO DELETE BUT IT DOES NOT WORK MELANIE IS RIGHT HELP AND IF YOU CANT DELETE HOW DO I WIPE OUT MY IGOOGLE ACOUNT TO TRANSFER TO http://WWW.BING.COM
August 26th, 2009 at 7:04 am
I tried the first way to delete gadgets, then I close the window and opened it again. That seemed to do the trick.
August 26th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I tried both ways as well, neither works. I’m going back to the good old BBC homepage. Stuff iGoogle.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:36 am
I just switched to msn as my home page and the gadgets were gone!
October 28th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I have a Mac. There are no icons for either scenario 1 or 2. What do I do?
Also, three gadgets are empty boxes. What do I do get them back to normal?
Thanks!
Mattie
November 12th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I COUKDN’T DO EITHER BECAUSE WHENEVER O GO ON MY IGOOGLE, CHUCK NORRIS JOKES SPAM ME, AND WHEN I CAN GET BACK TO MY IGOOGLE, IT SPAMS AGAIN! ON THE SAME OPEN WINDOW TO!!! AND IT DOESN’T GIVE MEENOUGH TIME TO DELETE IT!!!! IT GIVES ME 1 SECOND! HELP!!!!
December 9th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Your instructions work great to delete gadgets in a session. Now how do I permanetly delete the gadgets from my igoogle page or permanetly delete the entire igoogle setting to start over and hopefully not add so many annoying and duplicate gadgets. Thanks, I appreciate your time and assistance.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
ughhhhh i added a chuck norris gadget and now it wont let me delete it bcuz it doesnt give me time 2 do it it goes straight to the chuck norris fact…
plzzzzzz help me!
December 13th, 2009 at 8:11 am
how do get this stupid chuck norris off
my entire screen. you don’t know what else to do
December 21st, 2009 at 8:32 am
omg I thought I was the only one with the chuck norris fact problem!! google needs to delete that one altogether. redirects me out of google every time!!
December 25th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
omg. the chuck norris this is driving me crazy. i dont know how to get rid of it. i tried to delete it but i dont have enough time to do it. and i cant get it off. someone please help me before i go insane!!!
December 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Yeah I am so frustrated wit the stupid Chuck Norris thing! Ugh. I went to the settings and deleted it but it won’t go away. And it doesn’t give enough time to delete it off the iGoogle page. Anyway I can get it off or delete all the apps and start over!?
December 29th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I even “deleted” it off my iGoogle page when I had enough time and it didn’t work… Please, do you know how to fix this?
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:51 pm
I went to another computer, opened a clean igoogle page, opened the edit gadget tab, then e-mailed the hyperlink to myself. Back to my computer, opened the e-mail and clicked the link - was finally able to open the edit page and delete the Chuck Norris gadget.
January 9th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I recommend Google create a one stop delete ALL gadgets on IGoogle. For instance just place the selection in menu, “Delete all gadget from your IGoogle page” with the standard click option, then a red X could appear to close off all gadgets at once permanently. I also do not like the “share with friends” selection that come with automatic checks to all this gadget—-
Before you begin to think I do not appreciate you let me sat having the option of creating my own homepage to open my favorites is a fantastic idea. Thank you!
February 18th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
These FUCKIN GADGETS WON’T DELETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Um…I’m so stupid, I added a bunch of apps to igoogle, and now it takes forever to load…. don’t make that mistake.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I have attempted everything suggested above. I cannot get the gadgets deleted. So how do we fix this?
May 6th, 2010 at 8:43 am
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