So I found this article on Tech-Recipes demonstrating how to get the Windows Vista Sidebar on Windows XP and thought this would be nice addition to my desktop. After following the steps on the installation I found myself going from one site to the other to gather the files so that I can get the install to work correctly. After about 20 Minutes of copying/pasting going to one website then the other I finally got my sidebar working. I thought to myself, "I need to make this easy for the average Joe that wants to install this," so I decided to package all the files into one file, that automatically extracts all the necessary files to your computer and executes the patch for you all you have to do is click on patch and run the sidebar application. Thanks to all those who posted these files online for everyone to download. Follow the link to the guide, it’s a 1 pager….enjoy!
Link to Guide
Link to Installer
Link to Installer in French
Article posted on 03 8th, 2006
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Thanks for this, however, the link for the Sidebar download from Tech-Recipes linked in your article no longer works. Naturally, microsoft has no link to download the sidebar, “why buy the cow if you get milk for free.” A reasonably thorough search for the Vista Sidebar download only brings up software from Thoosje which appears to be something else altogether.
Alan
Got it, thanks for the reply Gilberto.
The sidebar reminds me of many Linux installs I’ve tried; close to what I want but not close enough.
Alan