I've been running with Windows Server 2008 as my primary desktop OS now for a few weeks and one of the things that I had not got to work was Sidebar. I found several blog posts on the net where people claim to have it working but following their steps always resulted in failure.
More specifically running sidebar would show the icon in the system tray but the app would immediately exit. Turns out that I needed on extra step. So, without further delay, here are the steps I did to get sidebar working in Windows Server 2008 x64.
- Copy the Windows Sidebar folder from c:\Program Files on a Vista x64 SP1 installation to your Win2k8 install.
- From an administrator console run:
regsvr32 sbdrop.dll
regsvr32 wlsrvc.dll - From that same console run:
sidebar /RegServer - Move the Sidebar registry information from a working Vista SP1 x64 install. You can find it at HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/SideBar.
- Run sidebar!
Here's a screenie showing it working on my setup.
Is this for Windows Server 2008 64bit or 32bit?
ReplyDeleteI am running 32bit - would I need to get the registry entries from a 32bit Vista install?
please can someone send me the files required for 64 bit version of sidebar and the required registry entries as i can only find the 32bit editions
ReplyDeleteJust tried this on a 32bits win2k8 server with the registry settings from a 64bits vista, works like a charm.
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I get an App Crash instantly after starting. I run 2k8 32bit and copied the sidebar and reg from a 32bit Vista.
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Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: sidebar.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 4791952a
Fault Module Name: StackHash_0275
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.17051
Fault Module Timestamp: 47454860
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 000b00b8
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.274.10
Locale ID: 1031
Additional Information 1: 0275
Additional Information 2: cdff3720a18c6cc1c6eee32a403e501d
Additional Information 3: 4ffa
Additional Information 4: 4ebfa8abdd97e1325ea5f6a69c12a15a
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how do you transfer the registry information? i have a 32bit version of vindows vista and i need the sidebar for server?? please help! it would be greatly apperciated
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