Sidebar not working

[Pedro Gil]

Hi,

This is my second post about this issue, but it´s really anoying to me not
to be able to make my sidebar to work again.

I have installed Windows Vista FINAL ( not rc1 or rc2 ) in my laptop.
Everything was going well, but one day after a reboot I noticed that my
sidebar had dissapeared from my desktop.

Untill now i have tried almost everything but nothing seems to go well.
What i have done untill now is:

Tried to run from command line => dont worked.
Tried to run double-clicking at sidebar.exe => same behavior.
Checked my status bar to see if it was running in the background => it
is not.
checked system logs so see if in the applications or system logs i could
find something => nothing seems to go wrong.

At this point i don´t know what to do, if someone can help i will
apreciate it, i know that i am not the only one with this issue, so any
solution will help to a lot of people.

Regards.

Pedro Gil

 

[Rock]

Hi,

This is my second post about this issue, but it´s really anoying to me not
to be able to make my sidebar to work again.

I have installed Windows Vista FINAL ( not rc1 or rc2 ) in my laptop.
Everything was going well, but one day after a reboot I noticed that my
sidebar had dissapeared from my desktop.

Untill now i have tried almost everything but nothing seems to go well.
What i have done untill now is:

Tried to run from command line => dont worked.
Tried to run double-clicking at sidebar.exe => same behavior.
Checked my status bar to see if it was running in the background => it
is not.
checked system logs so see if in the applications or system logs i
could find something => nothing seems to go wrong.

At this point i don´t know what to do, if someone can help i will
apreciate it, i know that i am not the only one with this issue, so any
solution will help to a lot of people.

Have you tried a system restore to before the problem started?

Or from an elevated command prompt run sfc /scannow

Or try a Startup repair.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx

 

[Pedro Gil]

Hi Rock,

Restore point is not an available option because I have de-activated
"system restore" points when installed my machine.

I´m trying sfc / scannow to see what it says ;-)

I will post results here ..

Thanks for your time and help

Regards

Pedro Gil.

 

[Pedro Gil]

Well,

Bad News....the command sfc / scannow doesn´t seemed to work :-(

I will try startup repair to see if this works.

Regards .

Pedro

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I think Startup Repair only repairs the bcd store.

 

[Rock]

Well,

Bad News....the command sfc / scannow doesn´t seemed to work :-(

I will try startup repair to see if this works.

Regards .

Pedro

Oops, I typed it wrong. That should be sfc /scannow, no space between the /
and the scannow.

 

[Pedro Gil]

Thks Rock,

I typed the command in the right way, but nothin fixed ;-( I tried also
the repair option and obtained the same behavior.... i think i must start
believing in "gosts" ;-)

Any other ideas??

Thanks in advance

Pedro Gil.

 

[Rock]

Thks Rock,

I typed the command in the right way, but nothin fixed ;-( I tried
also the repair option and obtained the same behavior.... i think i must
start believing in "gosts" ;-)

Any other ideas??

Thanks in advance

Pedro Gil.

Sorry Pedro, I don't.