Comments on: How To Repair Your Crashed or Hanging Vista Sidebar

By: ahsan

ahsan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:23:11 +0000

Hi i have a problem with slideshow gadget in windows 7 ultimate..
Slide show works fine but the problem is i cant view the picture by pressing the view button in slideshow gadget..

I did the same method u mentioned above but in vain..

Kindly tell me alternative method to solve this problem plzzzzz

By: Computerhjælp

Computerhjælp — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:09:27 +0000

Thanks pal!!

By: aero

aero — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:26:05 +0000

Nice post, thanks! Followed your steps, didn’t solve my problem, but it cleaned the Setting file, which was a good thing. My problem was that the “Add Gadget” command did nothing, The gadgets window would not open. After two days of searching, I deleted all gadgets from the Gadets folder and realised that one of them was causing the problem. Now everything works!

By: Tylar F

Tylar F — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:13:23 +0000

Thanks so much, I have been searching for days, and finally, I fixed my sidebar, I accidently left an autoclicker on my add gadget thingy, and so It made my sidebar unusable, thanks a lot!

By: Zhang WeiSheng

Zhang WeiSheng — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:59:16 +0000

Hi, I hope to get some help here.
I use the Notes feature in Windows Sidebar and found it greatly convenient and useful.

However i realize that whenever i accidentally click on the “x” and close the gadget, this operation happens to delete all the stored data i have in notes as well. Re-adding the gadget seems to give me a completely blank notes.

This is highly frustrating and un-dependable. is there any way around it?

Thank you.

By: Garth Snyder

Garth Snyder — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:41:32 +0000

Thanks both to the OP and to commenter Jason Ross for the excellent information. Unfortunately these measures don’t fix my particular crash, but these were useful things to try.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:34:25 +0000

Thank you so much for your help! I could not figure out for the life of me how to get my sidebar for vista to work. It was frozen and it messed everthing up when we tried to use the computer! We had to stop the process everytime we would start up the computer. I will always look to you all now if I have another vista problem. You are awesome!

By: Ville

Ville — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:06:53 +0000

Thanks! It was very easy way to repair my computer sidebar =)

By: VistaUser

VistaUser — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:21:34 +0000

thanks it worked!
had to reset my gadgets how i wanted them but at least they are back!

By: chino

chino — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:16:25 +0000

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC DV6000 Please I want to know if you have the answer to my question My laptop was working perfectly and I was doing a tattoo on a client and the screen went off and then I tried to turn it on again and nothing happend only the orange little lite that tells you if the wireless lite is working or not but the power button and the board doesn’t light up nor turn on and the screen is blank I only can see a black screen like when it is off not even the fan on the laptop turns on. Please tell if there is anything that I can do or if this is a bug that come3 with this type of computer I at first believed that it was on sleep mode or hibernate mode on its own. please someone send me a email.