Sidebar Works, But Unresponsive
Dec 29, 2008
I'm running Home Premium x64. The build is only ~1month old and previously the sidebar was working fine. Apparently I've fouled something up. The sidebar loads fine, runs fine, looks fine. Here is the problem; Gadgets like Pro Weather, or Hermes, where the user has the option of opening up a larger screen to the left of the gadget.. those screens are unresponsive.
For example in the weather app, I click the little arrow to expand the gadget, it brings up the larger window with options to view the radar, or nightly forecasts, or moon phases etc, but my clicking ANYWHERE on that screen is unresponsive.. it just doesn't work. I thought maybe it was the weather app, but then noticed the same thing on Hermes. Hermes is a news ticker. When you hover over a story it brings up the full story in a pane to the left, with clickable links for the actual web story. Again, all mouse input in this pane seems to be restricted, and the links do not work.
I don't recall the exact moment when I lost control of this. Over the past few weeks I have installed / uninstalled Norton AV, and used a utility called 'Vista Manager'. Currently I am running no AV. The Vista Manager program is pretty neat actually. I didn't make any kind of drastic changes with it, but thats not to say it isn't someone related. Maybe it stopped a required service or something? Who Knows.
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Oct 8, 2008
i'm using vista x64 ultimate and having this issue for a long time, couldn't find a solution to fix it clearly.
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Oct 12, 2009
HP Pavillion DV7 Notebook PC
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9000 at 2GHz (64-bit)
6.00 GB RAM
64-bit Vista Home Premium SP1
I am a computer application programmer and have a lot of experience with XP, but mostly as a user. This is my first Vista machine and I have little experience with Vista, but I can find my way around it...eventually. (I'm used to finding configuration options in XP and have to search a little to find the equivalent option in Vista.) Quite frequently, when I am using my machine, it goes into an "unresponsive" or "thrashing" state. By this I mean the hard drive light goes on continuously, and some or all all runnin applications become unresponsive (they don't respond to clicks and keypresses,eventually showing "Not Responding" in the title bar). Usually Explorer and the task bar and start menu remain functional but sometimes I get the spinning ring of death. Control-Alt-Delete causes the screen to go black for a few minutes before the prompt comes up.Sometimes this happens with the Task Manager open. Sometimes Task Manager becomes unresponsive too, but when it doesn't it appears to show only 30% processor usage, and only about 2Gb of RAM are in use.The most frequent program I use when not programming is Windows Live Mail, and the problem seems to crop up when I'm reading and browsing e-mails, and Windows Live Mail seems to be the first to exhibit the problems, but that's probably coincidence.No error messages. Is there a system log that I should be looking at? Sometimes in Task Manager I've seen WERfault.exe running - does this mean a background process is crashing? How can I get more info on that?
The problem started soon after I got the machine. The first time it cropped up, I turned off SuperFetch and the problem seemed to disappear for a few days, but after a windows update, the problem returned just as bad as before.
The machine never totally hangs -- if I wait around for a few minutes, eventually it finishes whatever was tying it up and all applications become responsive again. But this occurs quite frequently, 5-10 times per hour, and thus it is very hard to get work done.
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Apr 17, 2009
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Sep 1, 2008
firstly sorry if this is placed in the wrong area of the forum but i didnt know where to post, secondly ive read other posts which share similar symptoms to my problem but not all the same.
ill start my computer and everything seems fine, then all of a sudden at random moments (whilst playing games, whilst surfing the net, whilst booting up, whilst not doing anything) completly random at any time, my pc will seem to crash, the screen goes blank and says 'no input' the computer is on but the little orange flickering light stops..........
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Mar 8, 2009
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I just finished reseating the memory (again), swapping the memory slots etc to no avail. I then removed one of the two OCZ Gold 2GB 1600 DDR3 sticks and booted with only one. Lo and behold - the issues disappear. Thinking it might be a bad memory stick (one that slipped past the dozen or so times I ran memtest86+) I swapped in the other to confirm. Well - turns out it ran fine with the other alone as well. Guess it is not a bad memory stick. Now thinking it is a bad slot on the mobo I tried swapping each into other slots but all continue work correctly.Bottom line, I am baffled. How is it that one 2GB memory stick will be fine in any slot but two will begin to create the issues?
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Nov 21, 2009
Whenever I download a huge setup file (such as a game or game demo 500MB or more) UAC takes a long time and the system becomes unresponsive. How can I fix this?
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Mar 23, 2008
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Feb 6, 2009
ive been having problems with the tilde key on my Asus laptop. at first it was that it didint work at all, in games, in microsoft works, or notepad. i went searching online and disabled the driver for the eHome ir receiver (even though i dont own an ir receivers). after that i was able to use the tild key only outside of games. but heres the strange part, if i press the tild key quickly as if i were typing normaly, it dose not register. in order to use it i have to hold down the tilde key for about 1-2 seconds before it would spit out a stream of "````````````". then i could delete up to the first one. this is true for the laptops keyboard, and a wired dell keyboard i connected using usb.........
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May 2, 2009
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May 22, 2008
Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and back to 0 and back to 50+ and just keeps doing this. What would cause that?
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May 3, 2009
I have installed Vista x64 and there's no vista sidebar. I tryed searching in start menu, control panel even in program files. I couldn't find anything. So is there way to install it manualy? I guess i installed version without sidebar.
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Jun 5, 2009
After my sec0nd botched attempt at installing Explorer 8 on my Vista
Ultimate, I have ended up with a gray (instead of transparent) sidebar.
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Jul 10, 2008
I run vista ultimate64 on my laptop and just love it. Sidebar gadgets monitor a few things, network cpu useage, mem useage....what I am looking for is a sidebar gadget that monitors cpu temd (HD temp would be bonus points)
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Jul 29, 2009
I am having problems with my sidebar, and I think with IE as well. It all started when I uninstalled McAfee from my system. When I had it installed, it would freeze my entire computer in seconds, so I uninstalled it. After that my sidebar never worked right again. The gadgets show up, but not correctly. My weather app just had a white box with a little blue "i" in the corner. My analog clock would just have a black face and a red second hand at 12 o'clock that never moved.
I have tried to uninstall and reinstall the gadgets, but with no luck. I have tried a few command prompt .dll commands that I have read in forums, but that didn't help. I read it might be an issue with IE8, so I downgraded to IE7, but that still didn't help. I love the sidebar and want to use it again, but nothing I do works! I also have an issue with my IE7.
I tried to sign up for these forums, but the image verification box wouldn't show up until i tried it in Firefox. I use a browser called Slimbrowser (which is based on IE I believe) and I would like to continue using it, but it may be linked to my IE problem.
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Jun 18, 2009
how to get the sidebar on my Vista back on again. Has disappeared for some reason. no gadgets.
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Apr 19, 2008
I've completely lost my sidebar -- if that's the right term -- you know, that thing with the gadgets. I don't even have that "+" or "-" thing at the top. Could I inadvertently have turned it off? If so, where is the switch?
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Apr 7, 2009
I've tried over and over again to try and get my Vista Sidebar to reload and I don't know what's going on. When I type in "regsvr32 -u ATL.DLL" I get "DLLUnregisterserver in atl.dll succeeded." When I type in "regsvr32 -u sbdrop.dll" and any of the other commands I get the following:
"the module "sbdrop.dll" failed to load. Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files. The specified module could not be found."
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Mar 30, 2008
Even though my account is Admin status I have lost Sidebar and jut get I need an Administrtaor to reinstall. Setting up a bogus account doesn't help either. And yes i have used the control panel icon to attempt reload nothing! Short of going to System Restore does anybody have a solution?
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May 11, 2008
I've done nothing to my system (no new progs) but this morning the sidebar is missing.
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Apr 17, 2009
In Windows Vista, I lost my Sidebar settings. The Gagets are still there, but the color of the Sidebar is now transparant; I can see the desktop wallpaper right through the Sidebar. How do I make the sidebar itself, solid grey (non-transparent) ?
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Oct 19, 2008
I run two monitors with my desktop "extended" over both. All has been well with the Sidebar sitting pretty on my main monitor (which, incidentally is on the right-hand side on my desk). However, I suddenly found, upon booting up one morning, that my settings had disappeared. I have reset them, but I now find that the Sidebar is sitting on my No#2 monitor, which effectively means that it is in the middle of my desktop, if you follow me. This isn't a show-stopper for me, although I sometime don't switch the No#2 monitor on. I'm trying to find a way to reposition the sidebar, as all I seem to be able to do is turn it on and off.
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Jun 16, 2008
I've placed the weather gadget on the sidebar and set it for my area, however the temperatures and forecasts are nothing like the those from the weather bureau or other weather sites.
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Mar 23, 2008
I'm sure everyone knows that Windows Sidebar can potentially destroy the amount of RAM that is available on your PC, but I'm having sort of an unusual problem with this. When Windows Sidebar is loaded, the amount of RAM that it occupies is about 20MB, which is certainly acceptable for me. However, after the course of 6 or so hours the RAM increases upwards of 120MB, and after 12 hours, nearly 200MB! This just doesn't seem right. I'm assuming Sidebar is stored some previous information via RAM, but I really can't see this information being necessary at all. Is there anyway I can put a cap on the amount of RAM that Sidebar uses? Or even some other method to reduce the RAM usage?
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Mar 22, 2009
Vista Ultimate 64. After installing IE 8, several gadgets stopped working correctly. Did some research and re-registered msxml3.dll, scrrun.dll,jscript.dll. Yet the problem persists.
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Mar 30, 2009
Does anyone use it? I tried it but i cant for the life of me see any real point in it , ive had cpu monitors in there , bandwidth monitors disk usage stats the weather even linked it up to Everest pro edition and still found it a waste of time , i cant even see it for 99% of the time cos who ever stares at their desktop? Open an app and its gone , or set it to display on top of all windows and it just becomes a pain thats always in the way?? Am i missing something? According to the interweb its one of the most popular features in Vista!! any gadgets you would recommend?
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Oct 28, 2009
I am unable to install any new sidebar gadgets. The gadgets that came with Vista, (contacts, currency, weather, etc.) I can "Add Gadget" ok. When I go to "Get more gadgets online", then I have issues. When I pick a gadget, then click the download button, I get the Install and Don't Install buttons. Clicking the Install button causes a message to appear on my status bar, then nothing. I don't know what the status bar message says because it is only there less than 1 second. Nothing is downloaded to my computer and no new gadget appears in the Add Gadget list........
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Mar 30, 2008
So ever since I got my computer I can't get the sidebar to work. I can bring it up and add gadgets but they don't function properly and they only have an X on the right hand side (no magnifying glass to edit options). So basically, the sidebar works but the gadgets don't?? Some of the graphics will show up but they don't function...this is very frustrating and I've spent lots of time trouble shooting and trying to figure out possibilities
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Oct 1, 2008
I am a noob to the forums and a new Vista user. I am running Vista Home Basic. I ran sfc and it determined I had some corrupt files that could not be repaired. I determined that the files were all related to windows sidebar. My question is, can I reinstall windows sidebar and if so how is this done?
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May 13, 2009
after todays upgrades of Windows Vista Business 32b, I see sidebar to use 50%of my procesor on Compaq6710b 2,2Mhz,4GB RAM. It remains when I use only Clock gadget only.
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