First, right-click on the Sidebar icon in the system tray, and then choose Exit. (wallpaper found here)

You should receive a message asking if you really want to close, which you do.

Next you’ll want to check Task Manager to make sure that there are no sidebar.exe processes running that shouldn’t be. If there are, just right-click and use End Process on each of them.

Resetting the Sidebar to Defaults

Open up a windows explorer window and then paste the following into the location bar:

%localappdata%\microsoft\Windows Sidebar

This will open up the Sidebar gadgets folder, where you should see a file named Settings.ini.

You’ll want to rename this file to something else, or at least make a backup of the file elsewhere. This file contains your current sidebar configuration.

Now once you re-launch Sidebar from the Start Menu, you’ll notice that a new Settings.ini is created immediately.

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If you are still having issues with a gadget, you can open up the Gadgets folder that you see above, and you’ll see a list of all user-installed gadgets:

You can delete any of these folders if you want (always backup your files first).

With any luck, you should now have a working sidebar.

Source

SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, today announced several key milestones in the company’s growth. SpiralFrog now offers more than three million songs for free and legal download – four times the amount offered since its launch little more than a year ago. Music videos available for download also increased to almost five thousand, while the number of consumers registered to use the service has grown to more than 2.3 million. This is believed to be the largest total registered users of any legal, free music download site.

“SprialFrog consistently features the majority of the Billboard Top 10 for download in any given month,” said Joe Mohen, founder and chairman of SpiralFrog. “We are relentlessly expanding our selection of the world’s most popular music from both major labels and emerging indie artists.”

Mohen continued, “With the current economic turmoil and the potential threat of a recession looming, the offering of free music is very attractive to budget conscious consumers.”

Site Improvements
In addition to growing available tracks and registered users, several technology upgrades were made to the service. SpiralFrog recognizes the growing selection of browser options available today and now supports Safari, the browser from Apple, and the new Chrome Browser from Google, in addition to Firefox and Internet Explorer. Also, the registration process was simplified, requiring only an email address and password.

About SpiralFrog™
Headquartered in New York, SpiralFrog™ (www.spiralfrog.com) is a free and legal online music service that allows users to download and discover new music and videos. The music is licensed directly from the catalogs of the world’s leading music owners. SpiralFrog offers music-lovers a compelling alternative to illicit file-sharing.

From PRWEB