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    Tutorial: Make Vista Sidebar RTM work in XP

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by qohelet, Feb 14, 2007.

  1. gohanssjn

    gohanssjn Notebook Evangelist

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    Just a quick bump, I am pretty desperate to get this to work. There are a few gadgets I've come to rely on on my Vista laptop...
     
    gohanssjn, Jul 13, 2007
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  2. The Sentinel

    The Sentinel Newbie

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    Hi nice piece of work it works great. However none of the gadgets downloaded from the Microsoft site work - I've unzipped the folders etc and everything looks fine but they're not recognised by Sidebar. Has Microsoft updated or fundamentally changed the way Sidebar operates? It's a mystery. The gadgets tranferred from my release copy of Vista RTM work fine though. Wierd.

    Edit: D'oh! fixed. Unzipping the gadgets is not enough - you have to add .gadget to the end of the folder name .i.e. download timer.gadget, rename it timer.zip, unzip it and it creates a folder called timer, this needs to be renamed timer.gadget, copy that to c:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets

    Cheers :)
     
    The Sentinel, Jul 19, 2007
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  3. Minger

    Minger Notebook Consultant

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    One question - is there any way to resize it? (Make it smaller?) I'm running it on 1280x800, and I don't have enough room as it is... :p

    That, and I wish there was some way to integrate it with the Taskbar...
     
    Minger, Jul 27, 2007
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  4. churka07

    churka07 Newbie

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    HEY, PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME, I HAVE NOOOOO IDEA HOW TO CHANGE THE SKIN, PLEASE SOMEONE tell me how to do this, i do not understand what is meant in the instructions to change the skin. PLEASE SOMEONE!!!!!!
     
    churka07, Jul 29, 2007
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  5. churka07

    churka07 Newbie

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    Anyone Gonna Help Meeeeee?????
     
    churka07, Jul 30, 2007
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  6. helohelohelo

    helohelohelo Newbie

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    WHAT A GR8 PIECE OF WORK MAN TOP MARKS
     
    helohelohelo, Dec 27, 2007
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  7. Airbrushkid

    Airbrushkid Newbie

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    I try to install new gadgets, but they won't. There ext. is .gadget. Does anyone know how to install these?
     
    Airbrushkid, Jan 7, 2008
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  8. Bocca3

    Bocca3 Newbie

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    This is my first time trying something here and as usual I'm having problems. I installed the vista sidebar as instructed but didn't have the reditrbitible or how you spell it install. I'm getting and error and it won't load help. Oh by the way I followed the link to down load it and it still is the same. Now I don't have wireless Lan so I didn't think it neccessary to install
     
    Bocca3, Mar 22, 2008
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  9. N1K

    N1K Newbie

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    You could at least give the credit to www.wincert.net where original Vista Sidebar RTM topic was created:

    http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1442&st=0&start=0

    There's also installation for this sidebar on 9 different languages.

    P.S. If nothing else, at least you gave the credit to Ricktendo64!

    Any of you guys who have problems with the sidebar, ask your questions in this topic ( http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1442&st=0&start=0), since I see that you're not getting much help here.
     
    N1K, Jun 6, 2008
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  10. revengexx14

    revengexx14 Newbie

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    um. why does my weather thing look weird? it looks like a white box with the temperature in it o_O
     
    revengexx14, Sep 6, 2008
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