Install the Vista / Longhorn Sidebar into XP

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With a few modifications the vista sidebar has been hacked enough to get it to work with windows XP. Here are the directions.


First few steps ripped directly from davak’s directions from Installing The Sidebar into Vista.

    1. Download the Vista Sidebar files
    2. Unrar the files
    3. Copy the Windows Sidebar folder into your Program Files folder. If C is your default Vista drive, the folder should end up here: C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar
    4. Download the hacked patch files from RAFAEL.
    5. Uncompress them into the Windows Sidebar folder
    6. Click on the patch.exe in the Windows Sidebar folder
    7. Click OK to the sidebar.exe – File successfully patched! window
    8. You now need to put the xmlrw.dll into the Windows Sidebar folder. If you have IE7 installed, you can get it from there. If not, you can download it from this forum post. Place xmlrw.dll into your sidebar folder.
    9. Run \Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe
    10. When the sidebar opens, click the plus (+) to load the gadgets.




Props to Rafael for the hack and aeroxp.net for the rest of the files.

 

7 Comments -


  1. recoy said on October 7, 2008

    hi are there new links for the downloads? thanx if do pls email me sith_lord1979@yahoo.com or just simply send me IM thru yahoo messenger…

  2. The Maveric said on October 18, 2008

    Links are dead! =[

  3. jeff said on October 27, 2008

    doesn’t work for me

  4. Ron said on October 31, 2008

    No links

  5. sms said on November 25, 2008

    Very Good
    Thans

  6. gigio said on March 24, 2009

    file NOT found… :’(

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