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« on: October 09, 2009, 07:23:34 PM »
I have Windows Vista, and I've always had the Windows sidebar until a few months ago it suddenly vanished and never came back. I tried restarting the computer, because usually if I restart it, it comes back, but ever since it never came back. I went to the control panel, personalization and appearance and clicked on the option for windows sidebar, but nothing happened. WIll I ever get the sidebar back?  sad


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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2009, 07:35:27 PM »
goto start > then in the search box at the bottom, type "sidebar"      without the quotes, and bam, there you go Smile

 If this does nothing, or gives you an error that there needs to be a service running, post it , and someone will help you get it running again
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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2009, 08:08:53 PM »
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"
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« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2009, 09:41:34 PM »
Quote from: compuguybna on October 09, 2009, 08:08:53 PM
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"


Any simple explanation what to do with that to make it work?  smiley
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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2009, 09:44:19 PM »
not really sure but im thinking thats the directory to find the .exe (executable file) for the sidebar....just a guess...  NERD!
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« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2009, 09:45:20 PM »
I killed the SideBar as one of the first things I did to Vista to Fix it to work better.  Twisted Evil

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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2009, 11:18:21 AM »
I have had no issues with the sidebar with SP2....? Still do not much care for Vista, but it came with my XPS1730 thought I would try it.
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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2009, 12:18:58 PM »
Quote from: mudmanc4 on October 09, 2009, 07:35:27 PM
goto start > then in the search box at the bottom, type "sidebar"      without the quotes, and bam, there you go Smile

 If this does nothing, or gives you an error that there needs to be a service running, post it , and someone will help you get it running again

I clicked on sidebar in the search results but nothing came up
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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2009, 01:25:41 PM »
use task manager to look for any process of sidebar.exe if so end them

then run this file (will enable sidebar in registry) after you run - restart

next do search for windows sidebar...look for sidebar properties then see that "start with windows is enabled"
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2009, 05:03:55 PM »
You can also look here! This was posted back in February!!!! wink

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« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2009, 07:12:58 PM »
Here, this is how you can find it. I will attach a picture for easier explanation.

Start-->All Programs-->Accessories-->Windows Sidebar

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« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2009, 08:11:28 PM »
Quote from: nanobot on October 10, 2009, 07:12:58 PM
Here, this is how you can find it. I will attach a picture for easier explanation.

Start-->All Programs-->Accessories-->Windows Sidebar

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whatever button that says windows sidebar doesnt work for me. nothing comes up at all.
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« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2009, 03:42:51 PM »
If I were you I would repair Windows with a recovery disk or something like that. It should fix the issue, but if it doesn't you would need to google it or reinstall windows.
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« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2009, 08:04:59 PM »
Wow. Side bar was kind of cool looking. But in my way.  smiley
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