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- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Don't install this unless all you want in your sidebar is a search bar, a clock, a rss news reader, and a slideshow of your "My Pictures" folder. There's no uninstaller...
Save your time, and do yourself a favor by not installing it. - Wolf451man, on 10/12/2007, -10/+28Pardon my sarcasm, but "ooo, shiny transparency!".
Come on, ripping and installing beta components?
If you want a sidebar, get the Desktop Sidebar from desktopsidebar.com.
It does a lot more than round clocks, rss feeds, and gallery viewing. - Bradl3y, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25Right, because Microsoft has spent years designing a new theme and programming a simple sidebar, moron.
- shockingbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Hahha.. for real. A headline could read:
Renewable energy source fusion now has widespread use
Digg commenter: No digg. Doesn't run on Linux. - durzagott, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17The Google Search sidebar is great but my god is it ugly.
- lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Bradl3y,
That is actually more or less all that they've wound up achieving. They already took out "the 3 pillars" that were supposed to be the 3 major changes that would entice people to upgrade. Vista has been delayed many times (it was supposed to be released in 2003, iirc) and so much work keeps getting thrown out because they realize that their components aren't integrating. Everything that was making Vista worth the upgrade is no longer there, and now it is little more than a new graphics layer, some widgets, a new version of IE, and DRM integrated with everything. The only major original component still remaining is the DRM... that says something about MS's priorities. - yensed, on 10/28/2007, -0/+9The bad thing is installing all these "Vista Thing On XP" is that installing more then 1 can really screw up your systm. They both modify parts of the UI and sometimes crucial parts of the OS which can bring terrible results. I installed 2 of these types of things and my start menu wouldn't work.
- GimmeYoShoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Everyone on digg has something or knows something better then anything posted on the front page.
- D4RKfantasy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yea, it doesnt install anything, it just extracts it to a folder for you.
- Batiu-Drami, on 10/28/2007, -1/+8Yep. Vista Transformation Pack (v4) made my system fail to boot. Had to reformat.
- wadelindsey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Dude, your comment got buried because you can't "just buy Vista". It hasn't been released yet - only in Beta form (Beta 2) , "available for IT professionals and developers with MSDN and TechNet subscriptions." So..... you can't buy it - and you got buried because you made an uninformed, irrelevant point. People want to use the Vista technology - these so called early adopters - and the only way to currently do it is to hack around with WinXP.
Sheesh. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Didn't bother to add". Actually, they disabled it during the early CTPs. The idea actually was going to be scrapped for a short while, but it's back now.
- basse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6By all means, please go ahead and buy Vista. ... Oh, it hasn't been released yet?
- WarezAppz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Here's a thought: Maybe no one cares much for what your comment was. And just because it was ignored, does NOT mean that people are suggesting that you pirate anything. First off, if one wants anything from Microsoft you can get it for free - simply attend a Microsoft Launch event or some other event they are having they usually give away a copy of the featured software for your attendance. Secondly, no one has bashed Microsoft - appears the only one here doing any crying/complaining is you. "Posers" -- yeah that's indicative of your maturity level . . . .
- yourwar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Cool idea, and thanks for putting it all together. The program itself on the otherhand isn't so great...
- grendelwraith, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Oh yeah 'cause you can trust MS implicitly.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+16google sidebar is ugly plus it seems untrustworthy...
- freakystyley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Huh. I got all graphical effect disabled in Windows for a reason.
- azGFX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Appears that the site is down. I will try later.
- geekworking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Isn't anybody the least bit concerned about installing some software hosted on somebody's home computer (homedns.org) or maybe even hosted on a bot net?
How do you know that you are not the new beta tester for the vista rootkit or the new MS keylogger? - molsen311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yea this sidebar is lame, pretty much useless
- catpounce004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4After the Vista Transformation Pack fragged my computer, I'm not downloading Vista crap from here unless I see positive results first.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Or just get Google Search and use its sidebar? Plus the bonus of local search capability!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What's left after the sidebar and transparency are gone?
- milkfilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nah, the dashboard is this sidebar in OSX. The dock can't really have widgets in it, read rss feeds, do searches. Icons have extended functionality (like your E-Mail app icon might change to unread messages) but it's not like this sidebar thing.
- lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5LooterMcBeer,
Vista is little more than a new graphics layer (thus enabling new, shinier themes). Other than that and some other things like IE, and DRM restricting what you can do with your own property, Vista isn't much more than a service pack. - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8it has ALWAYS been there, it was there in the first longhorn alpha (i'm talking 3 years ago) and has more or less been present in most of the betas (especially all the ones within the last 6 months), and if it wasn't present it wasn't because it was scrapped, just because they didn't bother to add it.
- lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It is a legitimate recommendation, what is up with the MS fanboys modding him down? Google's widgets, thus far, appear to be better than MS's. I don't see what the big deal is.
- datastorageguy, on 10/28/2007, -6/+8Fascinating..I use the new IE beta and the page refuses to load. I use Firefox and it loads immediately.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Or just use the google desktop. It even has transparent gadgets. I have an old computer (XP p4 1.5ghz) running with the google desktop, search and gadgets and it doesn't seem to slow it down at all.
- mythryll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This sidebar is very ugly. The one from Thoosje is also ugly. The desktop sidebar is ugly. The only good looking sidebar is Vista RTM Sidebar for Windows XP which you can find here:
http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=485
This is included in the Black XP compilation - McZiggz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Or boot up the Mac OS X and its had this sidebar (read: Dock) for many years now.
- welcome to computing - rtaranu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3umm my virus scanner says it's trying to launch netbus.. which is a trojan
- OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here is a forum where they make "parts" and "gadgets" for the sidebar:
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showforum=47 - milkfilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2... and Digg isn't a video game where you win points for getting modded up. Roll with the punches.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm waiting for Vista Bob... I'm sure that will be a value-add
- ihatebillg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Vista = SP3
wow five years research for a sidebar. - echoic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3www.desktopsidebar.com I'm sure MS will get theirs up to scratch eventually but I've tried both and DTSB kicks ass.
- ultrasoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not to mention it does not auto hide. Can be quite a screen-space hogger if you're using a laptop.
- drunkenoaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Right. A hacked version of a fairly useless tool from a beta OS that might ***** my system.
Kudos to your hacking skills, but I'll pass this time. - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or they're going to wait for the next revision, then the next revision . . .
- shindig111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How can we add more items to the sidebar? Does anybody know...
- moglenstar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4webpage is incredibly slow, is this being hosted on their personal/home webserver?
digging this 'cause it's interesting. and it will atleast be easier than the method from aerosoft, a few months ago :) - Jugchock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go with desktop sidebar. http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
It has the clock, rss and gallery; plus stock ticker, weather moniter, notepad, taskbar, media player controls and quicklaunch. It's fully customizable with plenty of panels and skins. Don't waste your time with Vista beta crap... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its okay but gets a bit annoying, need to just get used to it.
- jpfinch, on 10/28/2007, -2/+2Vista Transformation Pack has uninstall capability, and will revert your system files back to their state before you put VTP on your computer
- linuxhotbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are much better Sidebars for XP and Vista. check out www.thoosje.com
Great Vista Sdebar with lots of different skins aivalable for download. Also 50% less memory use then the original Vista Sidebar. They have also lots of other tools to get the Vista experiance on your XP desktop - masterllama321, on 10/29/2007, -0/+0Yahoo widgets is cool, it takes some getting used to, though.
- Dariuswalsh, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0Wolf451man has it rigth desktopsidebar.com. has the best xp sidebar so far
- ahsanumair, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Has anybody bothered to used yahoo widgets. Provides same functionality with lot of applications. Also can develop your own applications for this platform. Please visit http://widgets.yahoo.com
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