vista sidebar

[namya]

how to make sidebar dont star on windows startup, i right clicked the taskbar icon, properties unchecked the run on windows startup, but it still run each time i run the windows, i even checked the startup applications with "your uninstaller" application, and it doesnt shows the sidebar as a strtup applications. any hint?

 

[zak4994]

Hmmm...

Download and install CCleaner then click on "tools", then "startup" then find "Sidebar" and disable it.

It's how I disabled mine.

 

[namya]

nice application zak4994 but again sidebar doesnt shows in the startup of this application also... weird no?

 

[zak4994]

I guess the regisrty has been removed then.

Try enabling the startup setting in the program so the registry setting will appear, then disable it.

 

[namya]

already done and not working

 

[zak4994]

Hmmm...

Not really sure that there is anything left to do.

This might work, try re-naming the "sidebar.exe" program to "sidebar.OC3D.exe" in this directory "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar".

Without quotation marks of course.

 

[namya]

while i laughed when i saw your last suggestions, knowing that the sidebar is a system file or shared or windows system application that is runing in background so no way to rename it, i turned again and said "yeah why not, already it's a weird problem, why not going weird" but no man, no way to rename it.

 

[nathan]

change the local system policy.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/114722-windows-sidebar-enable-disable.html

 

[namya]

thanks nathan, this is a very informative link, i changed the local system policy, and yes side bar is not loaded on startup, but instead i get a msg that say "windows sidebar is managed by your administrator", so the side bar is trying to load but faced by the local system changes, and pop this msg, i dunno why it still try to load up, something is forcing it but this is something really annoying and weird.

 

[BustaH]

have you tried msconfig/ startup items? you might want to try disabling uac security option. otherwise it sounds like you have something corrupt in your registry. ccleaner should have made this very simple.

 

[monkey7]

öhm... Just a very simple one which will probably upset you:

What about reinstalling sidebar (guess it's on the ms site somewhere) and disabling the checkbox again?

 

[zak4994]

öhm... Just a very simple one which will probably upset you:

What about reinstalling sidebar (guess it's on the ms site somewhere) and disabling the checkbox again?

No way to re-install it without re-installing all of Windows.