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Sidebar Gadget
  1. #1


    =?Utf-8?B?QnJpYW4gRXNoZWxtYW4=?= Guest

    Sidebar Gadget

    I older builds (ie January 2006) time frame, there was a Sidebar gadget that
    allowed you to drag applications icons onto it. It would organize them into
    a 4 x ? size grid. This was my replacement for the quick launch bar since I
    can not drag it off of the task bar in Vista. My hope was that they would
    bring the gadget back into the builds (by alas NO). Does anyone know what I
    am talking about? Does anyone know what the gadget was actully called? I
    guess I could pull out the older build, take an hour to load it on a system
    to find out the name of the gadget BUT I though I would ask here
    first....................



    Brian Eshelman

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  2. #2


    Sascha Benjamin Jazbec Guest

    Re: Sidebar Gadget

    I think it was called "Application Starter". It was in Beta2 (5384) or in
    5270 ( December 2005 CTP )
    What else is missing is the gadget for the recycle bin.

    SBJ

    "Brian Eshelman" <Brian Eshelman@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
    Newsbeitrag news:A5D9478C-7E43-4BD4-9CF6-D515A6B9E905@microsoft.com...
    >I older builds (ie January 2006) time frame, there was a Sidebar gadget
    >that
    > allowed you to drag applications icons onto it. It would organize them
    > into
    > a 4 x ? size grid. This was my replacement for the quick launch bar since
    > I
    > can not drag it off of the task bar in Vista. My hope was that they would
    > bring the gadget back into the builds (by alas NO). Does anyone know what
    > I
    > am talking about? Does anyone know what the gadget was actully called? I
    > guess I could pull out the older build, take an hour to load it on a
    > system
    > to find out the name of the gadget BUT I though I would ask here
    > first....................
    >
    > Brian Eshelman



      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    Andre Da Costa Guest

    Re: Sidebar Gadget

    App Launcher, and the Recycle Bin Gadget was pretty much useless, I was
    hoping it would be a replica of the desktop one. I also wanted to see a
    return of the Media Player Gadget first seen at PDC 2005 in a special 5219
    build.
    --
    http://adacosta.live.spaces.com
    "Sascha Benjamin Jazbec" <sbj77@gmx.de> wrote in message
    news:OGhIHI80GHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
    >I think it was called "Application Starter". It was in Beta2 (5384) or in
    >5270 ( December 2005 CTP )
    > What else is missing is the gadget for the recycle bin.
    >
    > SBJ
    >
    > "Brian Eshelman" <Brian Eshelman@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im
    > Newsbeitrag news:A5D9478C-7E43-4BD4-9CF6-D515A6B9E905@microsoft.com...
    >>I older builds (ie January 2006) time frame, there was a Sidebar gadget
    >>that
    >> allowed you to drag applications icons onto it. It would organize them
    >> into
    >> a 4 x ? size grid. This was my replacement for the quick launch bar
    >> since I
    >> can not drag it off of the task bar in Vista. My hope was that they
    >> would
    >> bring the gadget back into the builds (by alas NO). Does anyone know
    >> what I
    >> am talking about? Does anyone know what the gadget was actully called?
    >> I
    >> guess I could pull out the older build, take an hour to load it on a
    >> system
    >> to find out the name of the gadget BUT I though I would ask here
    >> first....................
    >>
    >> Brian Eshelman

    >



      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  4. #4


    Bruce Williams [MSFT] Guest

    Re: Sidebar Gadget

    We pulled that app launcher gadget from the Vista box. While I can't
    guarantee, its quite likely it will show up in the future on the gadget
    gallery site: http://gallery.live.com - and if we don't, I'm sure some
    enterprising gadget developer will make one.

    -Bruce

    "Brian Eshelman" <Brian Eshelman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:A5D9478C-7E43-4BD4-9CF6-D515A6B9E905@microsoft.com...
    >I older builds (ie January 2006) time frame, there was a Sidebar gadget
    >that
    > allowed you to drag applications icons onto it. It would organize them
    > into
    > a 4 x ? size grid. This was my replacement for the quick launch bar since
    > I
    > can not drag it off of the task bar in Vista. My hope was that they would
    > bring the gadget back into the builds (by alas NO). Does anyone know what
    > I
    > am talking about? Does anyone know what the gadget was actully called? I
    > guess I could pull out the older build, take an hour to load it on a
    > system
    > to find out the name of the gadget BUT I though I would ask here
    > first....................
    >
    > Brian Eshelman



      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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