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- 29th September 2009 at 14:44 #49761
sorry but R2 hasn’t a sidebar – only desktop gadgets – maybe you use an incompatible gadget – on my machine it works fine ( ultimate weather gadget thl )
- 29th September 2009 at 14:44 #59572
Anonymous
sorry but R2 hasn’t a sidebar – only desktop gadgets – maybe you use an incompatible gadget – on my machine it works fine ( ultimate weather gadget thl )
- 29th September 2009 at 20:03 #49762
Remiel,
I agree that W2K8SrvrR2 doesn’t have a sidebar, of course. Are you saying that you can and have installed gadgets without installing the sidebar?
That would be cool. This site explains how to install the sidebar, then gadgets, here:
http://www.win2008r2workstation.com/win2008r2/sidebar
Anyway, somewhere on this site I found a mention that some of these installation tools need to be run from the drive they are being installed on; I always unzip and install from another drive, so that may be why I’m having difficulty.
Thanks for the reply.
RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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Love means never having to say, “Put down that chainsaw”. - 29th September 2009 at 20:03 #59573
Anonymous
Remiel,
I agree that W2K8SrvrR2 doesn’t have a sidebar, of course. Are you saying that you can and have installed gadgets without installing the sidebar?
That would be cool. This site explains how to install the sidebar, then gadgets, here:
http://www.win2008r2workstation.com/win2008r2/sidebar
Anyway, somewhere on this site I found a mention that some of these installation tools need to be run from the drive they are being installed on; I always unzip and install from another drive, so that may be why I’m having difficulty.
Thanks for the reply.
RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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Love means never having to say, “Put down that chainsaw”. - 22nd October 2009 at 04:13 #49763
Here’s a desktop gadget related question:
What firewall rule should I use to allow weather gadget to work, if I block all outbound connection by default?
In Server 2008 R1, it used to be that I just needed to create a rule for sidebar.exe. But in R2 this doesn’t work:
%ProgramFiles% (x86)Windows Sidebarsidebar.exe
Allow this connection
For Public, Private, Domain profiles
Any local/remote address, any protocol, any portEdit:
Nevermind, forgot that I’m NOT running the x86 sidebar. Too bad the firewall logging doesn’t log the application name/path. - 22nd October 2009 at 04:13 #59574
Anonymous
Here’s a desktop gadget related question:
What firewall rule should I use to allow weather gadget to work, if I block all outbound connection by default?
In Server 2008 R1, it used to be that I just needed to create a rule for sidebar.exe. But in R2 this doesn’t work:
%ProgramFiles% (x86)Windows Sidebarsidebar.exe
Allow this connection
For Public, Private, Domain profiles
Any local/remote address, any protocol, any portEdit:
Nevermind, forgot that I’m NOT running the x86 sidebar. Too bad the firewall logging doesn’t log the application name/path.
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