Is there a sidebar with windoze 7?

[effpeetee]

Is there a sidebar with Windows 7? I have tried to find one without any success.:o

Frank

[brad211987]

I believe they did away with the sidebar. You still can get your sidebar gadgets, but they seem to be free floating on the desktop. I had heard it described as more of a gadget layer that is just above the desktop, but below all of your open apps. I didn't play with the gadgets much when I had windows 7 installed myself though.

[effpeetee]

I believe they did away with the sidebar. You still can get your sidebar gadgets, but they seem to be free floating on the desktop. I had heard it described as more of a gadget layer that is just above the desktop, but below all of your open apps. I didn't play with the gadgets much when I had windows 7 installed myself though.
Thanks, It's as I thought. I have a wide screen monitor and the sidebar made it look natural. Without it the width is always too great and the effect is not nice.

Maybe they will include it in the final version.

Frank

[Apostropartheid]

There will almost certainly not be one in the final. You can line them up on the side to create the effect, if you wish, or download a third party's.

[effpeetee]

There will almost certainly not be one in the final. You can line them up on the side to create the effect, if you wish, or download a third party's.
I found this by Googling.

If you really want old sidebar inder Windows 7 the following you can do.

Go to Program Files for x86 or Program Files (x86) on x64 Vista. I run x64 Vista so i had to go into Program Files (x86). Take whole folder Windows Sidebar and copy over the Windows 7 machine. You can paste it on desktop. Go and just rund sidebar.exe. If you want you can overwrite in Program Files. When you run you will get your Vista sidebar. All gadgets work fine.

Sidebar is fully functional, you can set its properties etc. It seems that program has no dependencies so actually to be simple it's the same damn code like in Vista with few things disabled in code, improved, cleaned. I'm a programmer and i know how the **** works. When somebody tells you that MS write OS from scratch they lie to you...It's code build on top of older code

Frank

EDIT: Doesn't work for me. (Ultimate 64bit.)

[Apostropartheid]

You could try copying the native 64-bit version and running it as administrator. I'm not sure whether the functionality is still there, though...

[effpeetee]

You could try copying the native 64-bit version and running it as administrator. I'm not sure whether the functionality is still there, though...
Thanks Cyan.

I tried it but it doesn't work for me. I'll Google it later and see what comes up.

Frank