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since the last update a small dialogbox pops up shortly after booting telling me "sidebar is not working properly, looking for a solution", but it finds no solution. i tried to restore the system to the time before the update, but after that i got a blackscreen with just the taskbar(but blank...

Hi guys If you still have to use XP 32 bit for a while doesn't mean it has to look horrible. Here's a Sidebar backport from VISTA to XP and a system display on XP backported from W7. Doesn't work for Win XP 64 bit however (Shows some people have got time to waste :D) Cheers jimbo

As the topic says my gadgets suddenly went away today when I unhooked my laptop from my monitor to take it to class. Since then my gadgets are not shown even though sidebar is running in task manager and each individual one is shown to be running in the gadget monitor I didnt mess with UAC as...

when i tried to uninstall AVG Free in favor of Zonealarm (i got the vista version working through compatibility), i got bluescreened twice. this then led to the following issues. 1) whenever i start up my computer, the gadgets take forever to load and take up 100% of my processor. i have to...

i've been running the beta since it came out without issues. as of two days ago, any gadget i put in my sidebar that fetches info from the internet is refusing to connect. they worked fine until then, and i have made no significant changes to my system in the last few days. windows firewall is...

Is there any way of getting the Vista way of working for the sidebar gadgets? What I want is for them to be always visible (which I can do) but for full screen applications to stop before they get to the edge of the screen - in fact to the left of the gadgets. the current way of working means...

i am using windows 7 build 7000 and have no gadgets. I tried to turn on gadgets or run window sidebar but the system is broken , usage cpu very height and pc slow down. Anybody has the same ?, how can fix it ?. I am sure that i did not remove gadgets form program manager

Hi all. I'm wondering if there is a way to get _just_ the quick links toolbar out of the main taskbar, and into a separate bar on the side of my desktop, or into the sidebar. I don't use the sidebar, and have it off at the moment, so I don't mind using it, but also have no conflict if it can...

Hello, I have a problem with my CPU Usage Meter gadget in my Windows Sidebar. The numbers in it (such as 58%) seems to be missing. Here is the picture of my problem: Also, every time I load up my PC, there is a RunDLL error message that says: Error loading winllk32.rom - The specified module...

I understand that there is no sidebar on Windows 7, but there are still desktop gadgets. Whenever I try to open 'Desktop Gadget Gallery' nothing happens. Anybody got the same problem? I have the beta installed on two machines and they both have the same problem.

Hi guys, I'm new here because I'm having some trouble with my laptop. Since this evening, everytime I startup vista it freezes at the desktop. It starts to load the sidebar and then freezes, I can't seem to do anything, even open the task manager. The computer seems to run fine on safe mode...

I am using Vista Home Premium 32 bit. This morning, my network connections stopped working. I could not connect to the internet via wireless or wired. I kept getting wireless and DHCP errors that could not be fixed. Also, sidebar only displayed small white boxes for my gadgets with no...

Ive just found out that you can actually create windows vista sidebar widgets or gadgets whatever you want to call them. Has anyone done this yet im interested in doing it if it aint too hard. You can create almost anything from what ive read very interesting stuff. Aparently you need to know...

If there are any readers who really do like that sidebar, then switch it off and download this (free) http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ It has several improved functions and more "gadgets"