Vista Series tips: Vista sidebar installation and configuration

Microsoft has introduced the Windows Sidebar feature in Windows Vista systems, and Windows Sidebar is a pane on the side of Windows Vista desktop for organizing gadgets. Users can easily customize the Windows sidebar and add a variety of favorite widgets to suit the user's need to interact with them. They can crawl and display from the Internet, computer network or computer information, for you to present the latest stock market, weather tracking or hot news, but also for your day-to-day management, booking travel, take care of a variety of work, etc., can be said to be very practical is very strong, the following we will look at some of his application skills.

Vista Sidebar Introduction

As a "trick" walkthrough of the Vista Desktop, Windows Sidebar has actually emerged from the earliest Longhorn beta, able to integrate a variety of beautifully crafted desktop utility programs.

After Windows Vista Setup is complete, sidebar is enabled by default, with the default location on the right side of the desktop--and, of course, sidebar will take up valuable on-screen display for users who are not large enough or have a low resolution screen. --the display effect is slightly different from the rest of the desktop to make it easier to distinguish. To set and adjust the sidebar, simply right-click on it, and the Properties window pops up, where you can set whether the system is loaded in sidebar when it starts, Adjust the position of the sidebar on the desktop, such as placing it on the left side of the desktop and adjusting the gadgets displayed in sidebar from the list.

To adjust the properties of the gadgets, you can move the mouse to the right part of the gadget, the corresponding Close button, option button, and so on, and then press the left mouse button in the margin to drag it to another location.

Click on the upper sidebar "+" button, you can see the system has installed all the gadgets (gadgets), in the lower right side of the page, you can see the "more small accessories from the Internet (get more gadgets online)" link, click that automatically connect Microsoft's Windows Vista gadget Repository, from which you can choose other gadget to use. You can also search the corresponding gadgets from the Internet, here recommend a Chinese gadgets download station, my sidebar.

Application Skills

1. How to open Windows Sidebar in Vista

1, in Windows Vista, choose to start--> All Programs--> Attachment-->windows Sidebar, you can open the Windows Sidebar.

2, select Classic View in Windows Vista Control Panel, and select Windows Sidebar inside

2. How to install Windows Sidebar in Vista

1 Copy the Windows Sidebar directory to the C:\Program files directory.

2) Copy parts directory to c:\users\***** directory

3 Running Sidebar.exe can

Note: C: \= your Vista installation path

= Your user name in Vista

3. Install Vista sidebar on XP

The famous "Windows Sidebar" component extracted from Windows Vista, because it is a real Windows Vista program rather than a simulation, here's how to install the sidebar in some XP

Installation method:

1 The system must be equipped with Internet Explorer 7, or the gadget will not function properly

2 Install "Sidebar_xp-extras.exe" (required English fonts and Visual C + + 8.0 runtime)

3 Install "Sidebar_xp-install.exe" (Windows Sidebar main program)