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Manual Installation for Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by jazzyehcx, Jul 8, 2009.

  1. jazzyehcx

    jazzyehcx Guest

    For peps that would like to install gadgets manually or are having a
    hard time to install their Vista Sidebar gadgets you can do the
    following steps:

    1. Change the extension of the gadget from .gadget to .zip
    2. Open up the .zip file
    3. Browse to C:\Users\[PROFILE]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
    Sidebar\Gadgets\
    note: [PROFILE] is your Windows Vista Profile Name, you'll need to
    open up your profile in C:\Users (if C is where you have your Windows OS
    installed on)
    4. Create a folder in there, and name, but needs to have .gadget at the
    end of it. For Example: Blah.gadget
    5. Go back to Step 2 when you opened up the .zip file, in there, press
    CTRL+A to select all files and folders, CTRL+C to copy and then paste
    into the Blah.gadget folder.
    6. Open up the Windows Sidebar Gadget Gallery by clicking on the + sign
    on the sidebar. Look for the name of the gadget, double click on it to
    add it.

    - I thought it might be useful for future references.:sa:


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