Does anyone know where the settings for the sidebar are stored which tell the
sidebar which gadgets to launch and how many? When I run sidebar, it
launches hundreds of copies of the gadgets and slows the system down to where
it is nearly unusable. Of course, the only way I can find to remove gadgets
from the sidebar is while the thing is running. I don't know what caused so
many copies of these gadgets to run, I sure didn't need 200 copies of the
clock running at the same time.

I don't know if this will help, but from an unrelated KB article I saw
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930277), it looks like:

"Configuration information about the gadgets is stored in the Settings.ini
file in the following Windows Vista folder:

C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar"

From what I can see, each gadget has a "Section" in that ini file. I don't
know if you should 1) just delete the file entirely in the hope that Vista
will recreate a default, 2) delete extra sections, or 3) see if there's some
kind of "Number of Instances" in there that is set wrong.




"Steve Lentz" <SteveLentz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know where the settings for the sidebar are stored which tell
> the
> sidebar which gadgets to launch and how many? When I run sidebar, it
> launches hundreds of copies of the gadgets and slows the system down to
> where
> it is nearly unusable. Of course, the only way I can find to remove
> gadgets
> from the sidebar is while the thing is running. I don't know what caused
> so
> many copies of these gadgets to run, I sure didn't need 200 copies of the
> clock running at the same time.