Windows Sidebar

[Remiel]

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 )

[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 )

[Kelsen]

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
—
Love means never having to say, “Put down that chainsaw”.

[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
—
Love means never having to say, “Put down that chainsaw”.

[imess]

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 port

Edit:
Nevermind, forgot that I’m NOT running the x86 sidebar. Too bad the firewall logging doesn’t log the application name/path.

[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 port

Edit:
Nevermind, forgot that I’m NOT running the x86 sidebar. Too bad the firewall logging doesn’t log the application name/path.

[Author]

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