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What's happened lateral Windows panel 7 , in my opinion, basically all users of this operating system know. Although those who have Windows Vista probably also place mini-so-called desktop gadgets on it. And our brother Penserman is a pensioner, I think this is no exception.

So in this article I would like to dwell in more detail on this very sidebar of Windows 7. Talk about these gadgets. Consider the appropriateness of their use in light of the latest recommendations from the Microsoft Security Technical Center. And also suggest a way to remove this, useful at first glance, thing from your computer, if, of course, you make such a decision.

Windows 7 Sidebar – why is it needed?

Needless to say, this is a convenient thing. For example, I placed a CPU indicator on it. Sometimes I looked at these arrows when... The news feed is not a bad thing, I also often glanced at it. But most of all I liked currency rate gadgets, since I constantly monitor some exchange quotes. Conveniently, I turned on the computer and the information was in front of my eyes. So what does it give us:

  • quick access to information - it is always ready;
  • ease of use - no need to stop the main work with documents;

And that’s probably all that can be said about it. But nevertheless, its popularity among people was, at least until recently, quite high level. Moreover, new gadgets to suit your taste for the Windows 7 sidebar could always be downloaded on the Internet. All you had to do was click on the “Find gadgets on the Internet” button:

Do you remember this? Now if you click on this link, you will be taken to a page where the inscription “Gadgets are no longer available” appears.

Windows 7 Sidebar is no longer needed

You may have noticed that I've been writing about this sidebar and gadgets in the past tense since the beginning. And this is no coincidence. And all because Microsoft discovered serious vulnerabilities there. It turns out that attackers have learned to create programs that use Windows 7 and Windows Vista sidebar gadgets to gain absolute control over your computer.

And how does it feel to you? Is this convenience worth it, and even with their evil intentions? And probably these intentions will not bring you any benefit, but rather the opposite. As soon as I found out about this, I immediately got rid of this convenient little thing once and for all. And I advise you to do the same.

By the way, how to do this is described on the Microsoft Security Technical Center page. There are three ways to disable the Windows sidebar and gadgets. I will describe to you only one, and given that my main readers are pensermen - pensioners and teapots, I will do it in detail and with pictures.

Disable Windows Sidebar and Gadgets

We will do this with the help system registry. Of course, this is recommended only for advanced users and administrators. But any experienced user was once a teapot too. So don't be afraid, just do it first backup copy registry before editing. So that if something happens it can be used.

If someone is not confident in themselves, it is better not to take on this, since erroneous actions can very well lead to problems, and quite serious ones. Sometimes, after such failures, you have to reinstall the operating system. That's why it's necessary Necessarily! ! So let's get started.

Click “Start”, “Run”. Or press the Win+R keys and in the window that appears, type: regedit. Then click “OK”, in the next one also “Yes” and we get into the “Registry Editor” window. This is where we act carefully and carefully. Left-click on the triangle next to the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE:


A list will open in which you need to find the folder SOFTWARE and also expand it with the left mouse button:


The following list will open, move the slider down and somewhere in the middle of the list we find the folder Microsoft. Expand:


We see the following list, again the slider down. Finding the folder Windows. Let's expand the list:


And at the very beginning we see the folder CurrentVersion, click on the triangle:


Slider down again. So we got to the subsection Policies. Let's click now right click mouse directly on this inscription:


Select “Create”, then “Section”:


A New section will appear in the list:


We don’t touch anything, we just type on the keyboard: Windows. This way we will enter the file name. This is what it will look like:


Now right-click on the newly created subsection Windows and again select “Create” and “Partition”:


Appears new section. As in the first case, now enter the file name: Sidebar. I won’t show you what it looks like. Right-click on Sidebar, select “Create”, and then not “Section”, as we did before, but “DWORD Value (32 bits)”:

This is what we get after our manipulations:

Enter the file name: TurnOffSidebar and again right-click on this name and select “Change”:


Enter the value “1” and click “OK”:


In the end it should look like this:


After making changes, you need to reboot or close the sidebar.exe process.

Well, you yourself know how to reboot, but I’ll tell you how to close this process.

Saying goodbye to the Windows sidebar

In order to complete the process, you need to call the “Task Manager”. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del, “Start task manager”. In the window that opens, click on “Processes”, find the inscription sidebar.exe, click on it and click on “End process”:


In the next window we confirm the seriousness of our intentions and the Windows sidebar will immediately disappear and will not appear the next time the computer is turned on.

And one more piece of advice. In order not to make mistakes when entering newly created names of sections and subsections, it is best to copy them directly from the text of the article and paste them where necessary. I think this will protect you from accidental mistakes, the consequences of which, as I wrote above, can be serious and unpleasant.

By the way, after removing this panel, I noticed that my laptop became quieter. At least, you can’t hear the periodic howling of the fan and freezing of pages in the steel is very rare. It’s no different that the attackers – the adversaries – have lost control of my PC! Or maybe it's my glitches?

With this, let me take my leave. And don’t regret that you lost such a convenient thing. It's not worth it Windows Sidebar, with all its useful gadgets, in order to endanger your computer and especially your personal data stored there. After all, it’s still more important.

    Organize widgets.

There are several ways to organize widgets.

    You can pin all the widgets to the sidebar.

    You can change the order in which widgets appear in the sidebar. To do this, drag the widget to a different position.

    You can pin some widgets to the sidebar and others directly on your desktop.

    You can remove all mini-applications from the sidebar and place them on the desktop. With this arrangement of widgets, it might be worth closing sidebar.

Place a widget on your desktop

Widgets can be removed from the sidebar and placed on the desktop.

    To remove a widget from the sidebar, drag it to your desktop. To bring the widget back, drag it anywhere in the sidebar.

If you can't drag the widget, you can try to grab it from another part, such as an edge or corner.

Closing the sidebar

The sidebar with hidden mini-applications can be closed.

    Sidebar Customization Windows.

You can hide the Windows Sidebar, show it on top of all windows, add and remove gadgets, detach them to place them on your desktop, and more.

Side panel Windows

    Side panel Windows : Questions and answers.

Here are answers to some common questions about Windows Sidebar.

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What is the Windows Sidebar?

Using the sidebar, you can configure quick access to necessary information without cluttering up the workspace. The Sidebar sits on your desktop and contains gadgets—customizable mini-programs that display constantly updated information and let you perform common tasks without opening windows. For example, you can view slideshows of pictures, constantly updated weather forecasts, and news headlines.

Side panel Windows

How to open the sidebar?

The sidebar opens by default, but if you closed it, you can open it again.

Opening the sidebar

Can the sidebar be customized?

Yes. You can decide which of your installed gadgets to put on the sidebar and which to remove. You can also add multiple instances of a specific gadget and detach one or more gadgets from the sidebar to place on your desktop. If you want the sidebar to remain visible while working in open window, you can configure it so that it always appears on top of all windows. You can also close the sidebar, leaving disconnected gadgets visible on your desktop.

Individual gadgets can also be customized. For example, you can set the clock time or select pictures to include in a slide show.

For more information, see Customize the Windows Sidebar.

Is it possible to change the width of the sidebar?

No, the sidebar has a fixed width. However, you can detach gadgets from the sidebar and place them anywhere on your desktop.

    Right-click the gadget you want to detach and select Detach from side panel.

    Drag the gadget to the desired location on your desktop.

Nowadays, more and more people are finding it interesting to use the Sidebar for Windows XP. Thanks to this program you can install various gadgets, which look quite colorful, making your desktop more cozy and less dry. Moreover, most of these gadgets are functional applications and makes your work on your PC easier by displaying it in the sidebar various functions(for example, time countdown, convenient volume control, and so on).

But the sidebar is not built-in to Windows. In order to use all these gadgets, we need to install the Windows Sidebar program. Please note that this program is a company development Microsoft, thanks to which the question of the security of your computer disappears.

So, in this article we will look at the process of installing the program Windows Sidebar. First you need to download installation file the original version of this program. The link to the file is provided at the end of the article. Don't worry about the security of your computer - on our website all the proposed files have been checked and double-checked by antivirus software. Having found and downloaded the installation file, you need to open it, after which you will see the following window:

It is not necessary to close all applications, since after the installation process is completed, the program will most likely still ask you to restart your computer. Feel free to press the button Further ", after which this window appears before our eyes:

Unfortunately, it is impossible to change the installation directory of this program, so here we are forced to humbly agree with the suggested folder and click “ Install " Next comes a quick installation process, taking on average from half a minute to two to three minutes, depending on the characteristics of the PC. After installation, the last installation window appears in front of us, looking like this:

Friends, enough time has passed since the program was released. iTunes 11-th version, but to this day we receive letters from users who cannot figure out the new interface of this program. Text of a letter from reader Elena:

Hello site, I am unable to apply the methods described on your site. The thing is that in my iTunes program The left menu bar is missing. Tell me how to turn it on?


Especially for Elena and other users who have problems with the initial setup of iTunes 11, we decided to talk about the left side menu bar, which is available in the 11th version, the developers just decided to hide it by default. The left menu panel can be launched manually, which is what we will do today. Indeed, the sidebar is present in almost all of our instructions.

We'll talk about how to work with iTunes 11 when you first launch it.

Launching the Sidebar in iTunes 11

There are several ways to launch the sidebar in iTunes. Below are all the launch methods, both for operating system users Mac systems, and for Windows users:


Launching the sidebar for Windows users:

  • Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + S

Launching the side menu for Mac OS users:

  • Keyboard shortcut: Cmd + Alt + S
  • Menu: View – Show Side Menu

Enable menu bar: File, Edit, View..

For those who want to enable and fix the menu bar in iTunes File, Edit, View, Manage, Store, Help. Click View – Show Menu Bar.


You can also turn the menu on and off using hotkeys:

  • In iTunes for Windows – Ctrl + B
  • In iTunes for Mac OS – Cmd + /

Once you enable the sidebar, you can use iTunes 11 to download music, create ringtones, and work with videos or photos just like previous versions of iTunes.

Opera is a browser produced by Opera Software. It is supported by everyone operating systems, including Linux and mobile platforms.

The browser is considered the fastest because it displays pages faster than others.

The browser has a built-in pop-up blocker, fraud protection, downloader, torrent client, mail and other little things.

It features good support for widgets that can launch and work without problems.

Integrated control methods for people with limited mobility and people with poor vision, which helps voice dialing and announcer screen.

More about the panel

The Opera browser comes with a sidebar by default. This is a specific place on the left edge of the screen, which is reserved for the quick access panel. The panel can contain both some browser functions and various applications. In some cases, this is convenient, because if you have to work with extensions, you can launch them with one click. But since most users are more conservative, many want to have a regular browser look without adding new features. Then the question arises of how to remove the sidebar in the Opera browser, but now a little about the panel itself.

How to remove the panel

To find out how to remove the sidebar in Opera, you need to go to the express panel. The panel also has its own settings and functionality. It can be used as an element that will always be visible, even when viewing websites, if the panel is pinned. If the panel is not needed, it can be left unattached, then it will only be visible on the express panel. You can either add the necessary elements to it or remove them from it. Next, you can move on to how you can remove the sidebar in the Opera browser. You can remove the sidebar without going into the settings. On the express panel in the lower left corner there is a small window icon, when you click on it, the side panel either docks or undocks.

Important! The sidebar is often confused with the extension panel. This panel allows you to place on the side the most necessary extensions that require quick access. It’s very easy to check which panel it is. To do this, you need to enter the key combination “Ctrl+Shift+S” on your keyboard.

There is another option. IN general settings browser, select the line called “Extensions”, where in the “Sidebar” item there will be a checkmark that needs to be unchecked. If this is added additional panel, which means this is not a sidebar and can be hidden with the same combination. If the problem is solved, then it was all about the extension panel.

It is not possible to remove the sidebar from the express panel; you can only prevent it from appearing when viewing website pages.

Also, previously, users encountered a similar problem and did not understand how to remove the top bar in Opera, but in the latest versions of the browser the top bar is not provided.

Conclusion

Removing the side panel is quite simple and can be done within a few seconds. If a problem arises and it is not clear how to remove the panel in Opera from above, the most correct solution would be to simply install latest version browser that does not have this function. Also, new versions are more secure than outdated ones, which have not been updated for a long time. Updated versions have better system data protection security, which is more likely to prevent any hacking attempts.