sidebar help   

My windows vista keeps saying that I need admin privileges to open my sidebar 
program. If I am the only one running my computer, why, if I try to open 
sidebar, do I get the message saying, WINDOWS SIDEBAR IS MANAGED BY YOUR 
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR? 
     iN MY uac, EVEN THOUGH MY uac is off, I am listed as the administrator. 
But I still can not activate my sidebar. Anyone know the solution?

I tried turning the UAC on. No effect. Any ideas?

date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:53:01 -0700   author:   rpw

Re: sidebar help   

Hello RPW,

This tutorial may help you enabled Windows Sidebar again.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/114722-windows-sidebar-enable-disable.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

rpw;851372 Wrote: 
> My windows vista keeps saying that I need admin privileges to open my
> sidebar
> program. If I am the only one running my computer, why, if I try to
> open
> sidebar, do I get the message saying, WINDOWS SIDEBAR IS MANAGED BY
> YOUR
> SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR?
> iN MY uac, EVEN THOUGH MY uac is off, I am listed as the administrator.
> But I still can not activate my sidebar. Anyone know the solution?
> 
> I tried turning the UAC on. No effect. Any ideas?


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date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:12:17 -0500   author:   Brink

Re: sidebar help   

This has to do with the "Turn off Windows Side bar" Policy setting.

Error "Windows Sidebar is managed by your system administrator" when you try 
to open the Windows Sidebar:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/166/1/Error-Windows-Sidebar-is-managed-by-your-system-administrator-when-you-try-to-open-the-Windows-Sidebar.html

-- 
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan,  Microsoft MVP  [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog


"rpw"  wrote in message 
news:2BCC377E-250E-4451-B911-C99B3355A991@microsoft.com...
> My windows vista keeps saying that I need admin privileges to open my 
> sidebar
> program. If I am the only one running my computer, why, if I try to open
> sidebar, do I get the message saying, WINDOWS SIDEBAR IS MANAGED BY YOUR
> SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR?
>     iN MY uac, EVEN THOUGH MY uac is off, I am listed as the 
> administrator.
> But I still can not activate my sidebar. Anyone know the solution?
>
> I tried turning the UAC on. No effect. Any ideas?
>

date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:23:44 +0530   author:   Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP ramesh@unknownhost