Vista - My sidebar rearranges my gadgets

The sidebar is a great idea... HOWEVER!

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 and every time I boot or restart the computer,
my sidebar gadgets load out of order and I have to rearrange them back the
way I want.

Is there a way to lock them into place On the Sidebar so that I don't have
to move them every time I boot up?

This is one of the actual bugs in Vista. It is not that the gadgets are
being rearranged. It is just that Vista forgets the arrangement you have
chosen. Hopefully this will be fixed in SP1.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"tha dave" <tha dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0801FAEE-2F36-49D7-A972-A0849E17D81B@microsoft.com...
> The sidebar is a great idea... HOWEVER!
>
> I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 and every time I boot or restart the
> computer,
> my sidebar gadgets load out of order and I have to rearrange them back the
> way I want.
>
> Is there a way to lock them into place On the Sidebar so that I don't have
> to move them every time I boot up?

On Sun, 20 May 2007 09:44:55 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:

> This is one of the actual bugs in Vista. It is not that the gadgets are
> being rearranged. It is just that Vista forgets the arrangement you have
> chosen. Hopefully this will be fixed in SP1.

With the millions of beta testers they had how the hell could they miss
that before release?

Well, in one case, I found that using a cleaning program and deleting Window
Log files was causing a problem.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Pipboy" <no@email.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 20 May 2007 09:44:55 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:
>
>> This is one of the actual bugs in Vista. It is not that the gadgets are
>> being rearranged. It is just that Vista forgets the arrangement you have
>> chosen. Hopefully this will be fixed in SP1.
>
> With the millions of beta testers they had how the hell could they miss
> that before release?

I'm feeling very generous tonight and will say that since the issue was
reported during the public betas, it wasn't fixed because of prioritization
of issues. While I agree it is frustrating, some would say it is cosmetic.

"Pipboy" wrote:

> On Sun, 20 May 2007 09:44:55 -0400, Richard Urban wrote:
>
> > This is one of the actual bugs in Vista. It is not that the gadgets are
> > being rearranged. It is just that Vista forgets the arrangement you have
> > chosen. Hopefully this will be fixed in SP1.
>
> With the millions of beta testers they had how the hell could they miss
> that before release?
>

Err, wasn't that the whole WOWing point!!
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Jonathon


"PNutts" wrote:

> some would say it is cosmetic.

I am very happy to have stumbled upon this topic. It is nice to at least
know it is a bug.

It is somewhat workable as it is right now with just the one sidebar panel,
but for users that use more than one panel, I can see this being a real pain.

As best as I can tell, the settings.ini file located here:
....\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
looks to be correct. It shows the right gadgets and the correct docking
order.

I agree, and hope this fix makes it into sp1.

Updating Logitech SetPoint software from v.4.7x to 4.8x fixed problem for me in x64 Ultimate

Found a fix!

* Close Windows Sidebar. To do so, right-click on the Sidebar icon in the Notification area and click Exit

* Open an elevated Command Prompt window.
To do so, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

* In the Command Prompt window, type the following and press ENTER:

regsvr32 msxml3.dll

Similarly, run these commands:

regsvr32 scrrun.dll

regsvr32 jscript.dll

If the registration was successful, you'll see the message DllRegisterServer in <filename> succeeded for each command executed. Open Windows Sidebar (sidebar.exe) and check if the problem is resolved. Move the gadgets to the place you want them and reboot. Problem will be fixed.

Okay, people - I have it finally!
The problem is in the bugged executable "sidebar.exe", for some reason after I updated to SP2, it was replaced with the bugged one, but having the same version of 6.0.6002.18005.The good file size is 1.17 Mb, bugged one is 1.48Mb. You can take it from Vista x32 - it will perfectly work from Program Files folder despite it's x32. To get the proper copy of file I can post it to some filehostings, but you can find it by themselves.
Then, to change the file you'll need to get proper permissions. To have these permissions you need to install "Take Ownership" regpatch and take the ownership of the whole folder Windows Sidebar, because the script doesn't work on executables (for some reason) and set Administrators group to have full access of the file "sidebar.exe" (located in Program Files\Windows Sidebar folder). Change file, close sidebar, then start it again. Now set the proper order of your gadgets and restart sidebar. That's it!

To make regpatch just copy text into text editor and save it with proper name:
___________________________
InstallTakeOwnership.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]
@="Take Ownership"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"
"IsolatedCommand"="cmd.exe /c takeown /f \"%1\" /r /d y && icacls \"%1\" /grant administrators:F /t"
___________________________________
RemoveTakeOwnership.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\runas]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas]

Good Luck!

P.S. You can also look here http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...b-6e0e6dca9e27