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ninjapenguinart
Jan 12, 2009, 07:33 PM
Hello,

I was wondering if there was anyway to close the sidebar in 7, because I know in Vista you can just close the sidebar completely by right clicking the icon on the right hand side of the toolbar, but I don't see a way in 7 to do so.



Tallest Skil
Jan 12, 2009, 07:33 PM
I was under the impression that they removed the Sidebar and that Gadgets were simply part of the OS now...

ninjapenguinart
Jan 12, 2009, 07:40 PM
When I check the task manager, the sidebar is using 28mb of memory, which means it is not part of the OS and its own seperate app.

diamond.g
Jan 12, 2009, 08:37 PM
When I check the task manager, the sidebar is using 28mb of memory, which means it is not part of the OS and its own seperate app.

Can you not close it from the task manager? (End task)

The Flashing Fi
Jan 12, 2009, 08:40 PM
The gadgets are now integrated into Explorer, and the sidebar is now gone.

I don't recall ever seeing a sidebar.exe in Windows 7 though (I'm not booted into it right now, so I can't verify).

younker
Jan 12, 2009, 08:44 PM
When I check the task manager, the sidebar is using 28mb of memory, which means it is not part of the OS and its own seperate app.

It is just like the dashboard, it runs on System start and put the gadgets on desktop directly, the sidebar is gone now.