Comments on: Shortcut Key to Hide Windows Vista Sidebar Behind Other Windows

By: Chaz

Chaz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:52 +0000

Doesn’t work with Windows 7 x64

By: Picasso

Picasso — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:59:53 +0000

Hey, when i double click on the program it does work?

It says:

“An older instance of this script is already running. Replacing it with this instance? Note: to avoid this message, see #SingleInstance in the help file.”

wth?

By: Rajas

Rajas — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:29:42 +0000

I use TrueTransparency on my vista basic machine to add transparency, is it possible to make png images that TrueTransparency uses to blur the background?

By: DPS4

DPS4 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:10:13 +0000

Can you make it so that they can be hidden behind the desktop itself? That way, we can have the OS X effect to bring them back up… I’ve been looking all over for that kind of functionality for Vista but I don’t think it exists.

By: Jerry Tarley

Jerry Tarley — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:10:49 +0000

what’s the chances we can get the script for this? thanks

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:07:26 +0000

Brilliant! This application is a saver

By: Kuhne

Kuhne — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:25:38 +0000

Nice idea what I hate though is that unlike the MAC gadgets or the google gadgets, theres no way to make “undocked” gadgets dissapear from the desktop. you can close the sidebar but the undocked gadgets stay there. its quite annoying

By: The Geek

The Geek — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:12:37 +0000

@stil

The problem is that the key combination is already in use by the actual sidebar, so it makes it a little more difficult to override cleanly.

By: stil

stil — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:09:01 +0000

suggestion: it would be much easier to use if the same key combo used to bring sidebar to front would also send it back. not sure if it’s easy to implement though, but it might be – something like chaining a hook on the key press, let the key press event go through if the sidebar is not in the front, and consume it (and hide the sidebar) otherwise. i’m not familiar with the windows api though, so i’m not sure this would work.

By: ph15h

ph15h — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:38:59 +0000

Yea. I’ve been using Windows+Space and alt+esc ever since I actually utilized the Sidebar. I’m afraid to edit anything else