Windows Sidebar Disappeared

[Guest]

Hello,

I am using Vista Home Premium and everything was working fine. My sidebar
has been working excellent. All of a sudden since last night, i turned on my
computer and it wont come up. i tried the following:

- Restarting The Computer
- Ran several fixes found online

at this point i dont know what to do in order to get this fixed. Will
appreciate someones help in getthing this resolved.

thanks.

 

[jonathan perreault]

well seems to me that did you good the sidebar take a lot of memory and
somewhat of cpu, but did you check in the start menu that it's still there
look around in there you may or someone else have deactivated from running
while booting

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[Guest]

Hello All,

Thanks for your responses however i have not been able to resolve this issue.

i have all the suggestion.

the sidebar.exe doesnt open anything. what i am thinking is maybe i have to
unistall the feature and re-install the feature.

if someone can shed some light i would appreciate it.

thanks.

 

[Guest]

I managed to get a fix for this problem by reading one of the other threads.

i am pasting it below:

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Here's the short version for fixing sidebar startup, though do please bear
in mind your problem may not be the same as the one I had. Even though this
shouldn't do anything bad, make sure (as always) that your data is backed up
first.

Before we start, check that it's not some real simple issue. Go to the
Start Menu, click 'Run', enter 'sidebar' (don't type the quotes). We'll
assume that sidebar didn't just start, and so we'll continue with the dll fix
with the next four steps:


1. To start an 'elevated' command prompt (not just a normal command prompt):


- Go to 'Start Menu', 'All Programs', 'Accessories', right-click 'Command
Prompt' and on the submenu, select 'Run as administrator'

You'll get a pop-up window or two asking if you're happy to do this, confirm
them.

(When the command prompt does appear, check in the title bar that it says
"Administrator: Elevated Command Prompt")


2. In the command prompt, type:


cd "\Program Files\Windows Sidebar"



(you need to enter the quotes, make sure you use the double-quote ")


Your command prompt should now say, "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar>"


3. Type in the following, pressing enter after each one:

regsvr32 -u ATL.DLL
regsvr32 -u sbdrop.dll
regsvr32 -u wlsrvc.dll

regsvr32 ATL.DLL
regsvr32 sbdrop.dll
regsvr32 wlsrvc.dll


(you may get an error after regsvr32 -u ATL.DLL, just keep going with the
next ones anyway)


4. Try running sidebar again, if you had the same problem as I did, then
hopefully it will come up!



If you have trouble with this, let me know what messages you're getting.


Craig.

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[Francesco Battisra]

Hi,
I have had the same problem, after having tried all the possible ways that i
know to fix it, I have resolved (using the command prompt for the first
time) thanks to your suggestions.... thanks again,
forgive my English
Francesco