ricktendo Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 !!! DISCONTINUED !!! The InstallerIt is now much easier to manually install the Windows Sidebar AddOn for nLiteHere are the easy install instructionsSidebar Install Video
sero Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 Hi there!Nice post!N1K - this is what i was looking for TIP: If u have problems with weather gadget -> "Service not available" you have to change Regional Options to English (US)At least for me it worked!Bye,Sero
NIM Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 TIP: If u have problems with weather gadget -> "Service not available" you have to change Regional Options to English (US)At least for me it worked!Tried that mate, no luck
ricktendo Posted February 4, 2007 Author Posted February 4, 2007 Updated Installer to RTM... Please Read the Instructions that are Included
cygnus Posted February 5, 2007 Posted February 5, 2007 Thanks Rik! Working great here, including the themes Is there anyway to disable the transparency? My laptop can't really handle it that well
ricktendo Posted February 5, 2007 Author Posted February 5, 2007 If you dont want the transparent sidebar just extract the sidebar.exe from RTMSidebarSkins.7z and copy it (Unpatched) to %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar then Right Click on sidebar.exe and Patch and Run Vista Executable...BTW the None skin is just that a sidebar with absolutely NO Skin, I recommend that one
Aids10 Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Thanks for tip 4 installing xtra gadgets rick!
Kelsenellenelvian Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 Did you follow the readme?Was Viao installed also?
ricktendo Posted March 21, 2007 Author Posted March 21, 2007 WLan API Hotfix is not installed, look on the VAIO forum and you will find the link
ICE9 Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 WLan API Hotfix is not installed, look on the VAIO forum and you will find the linkI doubt it, I integrated it with RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack, which includes WLan API Hotfix.
ricktendo Posted March 22, 2007 Author Posted March 22, 2007 Are you by any chance using a WiFi Gadget?... Its known to cause the same error, if not Download the Hotfix from Microsoft and Install it see if that gets rid of it
jinkazama Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 Hi, i have a problemi with Clock Gadget, it hasn't option tag and it looks so ugly!Look at image.Which is the problem?Thank youhttp://img368.imageshack.us/img368/8967/sidebartf4.jpg
ricktendo Posted March 28, 2007 Author Posted March 28, 2007 Type this in a CMD window"%VAIOTOOLS%\regtlib.exe" "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"
jinkazama Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 Type this in a CMD window"%VAIOTOOLS%\regtlib.exe" "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"Thank you Ricktendo64, now it's all right :thumbsup:
jinkazama Posted April 2, 2007 Posted April 2, 2007 ricktendo64 i've tried to replace original sidebar file with italians files (Patched by VAIO) but I've lost transparency...Can i make it in some way?Thanks in advance
ricktendo Posted April 2, 2007 Author Posted April 2, 2007 Download the Skin patches available on the first post.... Patch the sidebar.exe thats included with the patches and then copy it to the Windows Sidebar folder (overwriting the old one)Then right click on it and patch with VAIO
jembal Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 Please help me! :help: I don't know whats wrong with my notebook...The sidebar not working perfectly.I've installed the 13 mar sidebar on my office desktop....great no problem at all, but when try to install on notebook, the image of gadgets blur and some gadget nut functioning well.i.e font on notepad.......I've installed Vaoixp, Media Player 11, IE7 but failed to install WLAN API from Microsoft. Dont know why but the screen show "cannot transfer dependant packages' what the heck is that?and in the process of installing the windows update somehow my internet connection face problem: cannot log in the net : username not valid in the domain....whargh, whargh :ranting: somebody please help me....
ricktendo Posted April 5, 2007 Author Posted April 5, 2007 hmmm thats wierd. Never heard of any of those errors.The reason some gadgets might be broken is either IE7 is not installed correctly and/or the gadgets arent registered correctlyTry this cmd file /(copy it into notepad and save as whatever.cmd)ECHO OFFCLSTITLE Sidebar Files RegistrationCD "%VAIOTOOLS%"regtlib "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"CD "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar".\regsvr32 sbdrop.dll.\regsvr32 wlsrvc.dllTaskkill.exe /IM sidebar.exe /FStart sidebar.exe
jembal Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 Good day,Feel so happy coz my sidebar issues fixed already.... after throughout study in this forum.... :thumbsup_anim: and you're right my IE didn't installed correctly thats why I can't installed WLAN API and also because of some of my XP files corrupted. ....in the first place I reinstalled the XP then everything went okay! :worthy: But I still has small issues : Why my drive info gadget cannot displayed 2 images, when I picked 2 drive the image went black and ugly?.............why my calculator only functioning when using mouse not the keyboard?......why feed headlines look weird ? and lastly as common user faced the weather info still nut functioning... :questionmark: But overall I'm 120% satisfied with this sidebar compared with others...You really done great job. congrat :clap:
Dagnelino Posted April 6, 2007 Posted April 6, 2007 i have notice tath aftwer a few hours (2 or 3) the memory occupation of sidebar (on xp) with 3 gadget (calendar, watch, notes) increase too much... from 23.000kb to 155.000kb! Closing the application and reopen it solve the problem...Any solution?
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