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The Vista sidebar suddenly gone, along with all the gadgets. It doesn't show up at startup, it refuses to start manually, it doesn't appear at the system tray, it's not on the processes list. I was unable to delete settings.ini located at Program Files Windows Sidebar, neither by pressing delete, nor by using Unlocker.
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I don't use System Restore (there are several reasons for that). I've seen some people complaining about similar problem on some other MS forums, but no one gave any useful advice. Using Vista Home Premium x86, all updates installed. Sabse pehle pakistan book. Does anybody know what should I try? Thanks in advance. Sponsored Links. Start Search Sidebar Click on Windows Sidebar in the top pane.
Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) 'Cherish' wrote in message news:F90F2838-B258-47AE-9E90-ECE970C127BB@microsoft.com. The Vista sidebar suddenly gone, along with all the gadgets. It doesn't show up at startup, it refuses to start manually, it doesn't appear at the system tray, it's not on the processes list. I was unable to delete settings.ini located at Program Files Windows Sidebar, neither by pressing delete, nor by using Unlocker.
I don't use System Restore (there are several reasons for that). I've seen some people complaining about similar problem on some other MS forums, but no one gave any useful advice.
Using Vista Home Premium x86, all updates installed. Does anybody know what should I try? Thanks in advance. Happened to me; had to start it from it's directory with run as admin even thought my logon was in the admin group. Problem turned out to be the defrag option of a registry cleaner. Fix was to restore registry. 'Cherish' wrote in message news:F90F2838-B258-47AE-9E90-ECE970C127BB@microsoft.com.
The Vista sidebar suddenly gone, along with all the gadgets. It doesn't show up at startup, it refuses to start manually, it doesn't appear at the system tray, it's not on the processes list. I was unable to delete settings.ini located at Program Files Windows Sidebar, neither by pressing delete, nor by using Unlocker. I don't use System Restore (there are several reasons for that).
I've seen some people complaining about similar problem on some other MS forums, but no one gave any useful advice. Using Vista Home Premium x86, all updates installed. Does anybody know what should I try? Thanks in advance.
Hi Cherish, See if this post from Craig helps. I've also had this problem for the last few weeks, though happily I fixed it today. This was in part with a call with MS support, and in part watching what sidebar.exe was doing with Procmon. I'm not certain that my reasoning is correct below, but you may get some mileage from it. I suspect that an application had installed a duff copy of atl.dll (in my case I think it was from HP's IPaq Choice Points program - as procmon showed a reference to an HP directory when sidebar tried to start up).
I uninstalled the HP program to be sure. In the same way you may wish to search your machine to see if you have multiple copies of atl.dll before starting. Upon the advice of MS support, I unregistered a couple of sidebar DLLs. This took me a little while as I didn't realise the DLL's are in Program Files Windows Sidebar directory (windows search never found them for me, which is a touch annoying). Anyway to do this bit: 1. Start an elevated privileges command prompt 2. Cd ' Program Files Windows Sidebar' 3.
Regsvr32 -u sbdrop.dll 4. Regsvr32 -u wlsrvc.dll I then tried to re-register them, but it wouldn't work - I just got an error message. After some hunting around, I decided to first register (re-register?) ati.dll. I didn't try to unregister it first, and as I definitely only had one ati.dll now, I didn't have to go looking for it to check I had the right one - but you might have to. I don't know what will happen in you unregister ati.dll so be warned. So the next bit as I did it is: 1. From the same elevated command prompt (still in the C: Program Files Windows Sidebar) directory 2.
Regsvr32 ati.dll 3. Regsvr32 sbdrop.dll 4.
Regsvr32 wlsrvc.dll With the ati.dll done first, the Sidebar DLLs registered fine. Then I tried to start sidebar.exe again and it came up fine. I had over previous weeks deleted all the sidebar settings and such like in an attempt to get it working, so I guess that might still be necessary as well - but my feeling is that it's really to do with the dll's above and the settings removal isn't important. Hope it works out for you, because this was annoying the heck out of me for weeks. Ref: Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general From: SStarman Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:24:54 -0800 Local: Sun, Mar 4 2007 7:24 pm Subject: RE: Sidebar will not launch - Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User WindowsR Troubleshooting 'Cherish' wrote in message news:F90F2838-B258-47AE-9E90-ECE970C127BB@microsoft.com.
The Vista sidebar suddenly gone, along with all the gadgets. It doesn't show up at startup, it refuses to start manually, it doesn't appear at the system tray, it's not on the processes list. I was unable to delete settings.ini located at Program Files Windows Sidebar, neither by pressing delete, nor by using Unlocker. I don't use System Restore (there are several reasons for that). I've seen some people complaining about similar problem on some other MS forums, but no one gave any useful advice. Using Vista Home Premium x86, all updates installed. Does anybody know what should I try?
Thanks in advance. How do you register stuff 'Ramesh, MS-MVP' wrote: Hi CherishSee if this post from Craig helps. I've also had this problem for the last few weeks, though happily I fixed it today. This was in part with a call with MS support, and in part watching what sidebar.exe was doing with Procmon. I'm not certain that my reasoning is correct below, but you may get some mileage from it. I suspect that an application had installed a duff copy of atl.dll (in my case I think it was from HP's IPaq Choice Points program - as procmon showed a reference to an HP directory when sidebar tried to start up).
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I uninstalled the HP program to be sure. In the same way you may wish to search your machine to see if you have multiple copies of atl.dll before starting.
Upon the advice of MS support, I unregistered a couple of sidebar DLLs. This took me a little while as I didn't realise the DLL's are in Program Files Windows Sidebar directory (windows search never found them for mewhich is a touch annoying).
Anyway to do this bit: 1. Start an elevated privileges command prompt 2. Cd ' Program Files Windows Sidebar' 3. Regsvr32 -u sbdrop.dll 4. Regsvr32 -u wlsrvc.dll I then tried to re-register them, but it wouldn't work - I just got an error message. After some hunting around, I decided to first register (re-register ?) ati.dll. I didn't try to unregister it first, and as I definitely only had one ati.dll now, I didn't have to go looking for it to check I had the right one - but you might have to.
I don't know what will happen in you unregister ati.dll so be warned. So the next bit as I did it is: 1. From the same elevated command prompt (still in the C: Program Files Windows Sidebar) directory 2. Regsvr32 ati.dll 3. Regsvr32 sbdrop.dll 4. Regsvr32 wlsrvc.dll With the ati.dll done first, the Sidebar DLLs registered fine.
Then I tried to start sidebar.exe again and it came up fine. I had over previous weeks deleted all the sidebar settings and such like in an attempt to get it working, so I guess that might still be necessary as well - but my feeling is that it's really to do with the dll's above and the settings removal isn't important. Hope it works out for you, because this was annoying the heck out of me for weeks. Ref: Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general From: SStarman Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 06:24:54 -0800 Local: Sun, Mar 4 2007 7:24 pm Subject: RE: Sidebar will not launch - RegardsRamesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User WindowsR Troubleshooting 'Cherish' wrote in message news:F90F2838-B258-47AE-9E90-ECE970C127BB@microsoft.com.
The Vista sidebar suddenly gone, along with all the gadgets. It doesn't show up at startup, it refuses to start manually, it doesn't appear at the system tray, it's not on the processes list. I was unable to delete settings.ini located at Program Files Windows Sidebar, neither by pressing delete, nor by using Unlocker. I don't use System Restore (there are several reasons for that). I've seen some people complaining about similar problem on some other MS forums, but no one gave any useful advice.
Using Vista Home Premium x86, all updates installed. Does anybody know what should I try? Thanks in advance.
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