I use Vista's Sidebar app because I like the CPU/RAM gauge, calendar, sticky notes and app launcher. I noticed though, in my Task Manager that there are two instances of SIDEBAR.EXE running.
Why do I have two instances of it? Which one is the one I want to keep and which do I want to get rid of? I'd like to keep the Sidebar, but not if it's going to take up RAM like this.
Two instances of Sidebar
- 09 Dec 2007 #1My System Specs
Two instances of Sidebar
- 09 Dec 2007 #2
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Join Date : Sep 2007 Oklahoma, USA Posts : 235 Vista Ultimate x64 Service Pack I Local Time: 01:12 AM
My System SpecsRe: Two instances of Sidebar
end process on both of them...then restart ur sidebar app..
- 09 Dec 2007 #3
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Join Date : Apr 2007 Texas, USA Posts : 30,529 64-bit Vista Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, Windows 8 Enterprise Local Time: 01:12 AM 
My System SpecsRe: Two instances of Sidebar
OmegaWolf747,
Look under the User Name column to see if it is for another username's account on the computer. If they both have your username listed, then pick both and click End Process. You should only have one of these listed per active (logoned) user account. Restart Windows Sidebar, or logoff and logon again.
You might also check in the startup programs list to make sure it did not get listed twice somehow.
See Method One in this tutorial for how:
How to Check and Change the Startup Programs in Vista
Hope this helps,
Shawn
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