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10.25.05
Get
The Vista Sidebar In Windows XP
 By Nathan Weinberg
I am now running the Windows Vista sidebar in Windows XP. How to do it? Well,
its not easy…
Just follow the instructions here.
Basically, you download the Sidebar files, then download the patch. Copy the Parts
folder to your created User\Parts folder, apply the patch, copy xmlrw.dll to your
Sidebar folder, and run the Sidebar.
Now, as to the Gadgets that come with the Sidebar.
The first appears to just show random images from your hard drive. At the moment,
it has no options to customize.
The second is an RSS headline display gadget. Currently, you can have one RSS
feed, and a +/- sign determines whether you see one or four headlines.
The third is a clock. You can add a second hand, as I've done.
The fourth is a search box. It comes with MSN Search as the default, but you can
change it easily by entering a search string.
You can specify the side of the monitor the Sidebar appears on, and which monitor
it appears on (if you have multiples).
With all four default Gadgets running, you lose about 19 megabytes of RAM, pretty
much on par with my Konfabulator experience. Objects can be removed from the Sidebar
and be placed pretty much anywhere.
As you can see, its not exactly feature-rich at the moment. In fact, parts of
it don't even work. But, if you are like me and are having fun getting your XP
system to look like Vista (as mine does, thanks to WindowBlinds), then this is
a worthy addition. Also, proof positive Gadgets work in XP, since anybody can
get them right now.
About the Author:
Nathan
Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle
blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.
Visit the InsideGoogle blog.
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