How to stop sidebar.exe from autorunning?

"Zootal" wrote in message
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Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.


That works real good...except for that when you run it, it add itself right
back to startup :-)

I replied to the wrong thread, sorry! :-(
I think you'll have to hack sidebar.exe, see your thread 'Access denied on various Win7 files.'
I'll repeat my post he

If you check the security status of sidebar.exe you will see that Users, Administrators and
even System have only read and execute access.
Only TrustedInstaller has full control. That's why you can't rename it.
If you wanted to run sidebar.exe as you said, you would first have to take ownership of
the file and then give yourself full control.
Then edit it with a hex editor to stop it writing the registry entry to run at start-up.
The string 'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run' starts
at 0x00005F1C so you could, I guess, modify that by changing, say, Run to Sun.
Then when you ran the program it would write a harmless registry entry that didn't
instigate a run at start-up.
If you tried to edit sidebar.exe without taking ownership then Win7 will
just automatically replace the edited file with a good copy.

Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man, control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For reasons
known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that choice.

It's just another way Microsoft keeps tabs on you.

How would you know? You've just a stupid uninformed, ill informed lying
linux troll.
Why is an idiot troll like you even in here huh?
Oh I almost forgot what you said a few days ago...you're here to make
this ng unusable.
Forget it cody...you're even too stupid to do that!
Oops!

The above is Frank thinking that he's "kicking my ass all over the ng".
LOL! What a lamer.

--
Alias

Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man, control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't have
Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously, pay no
attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the Windows
7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and can
do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup and
will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

How would know?

I use MS products, of course.

You don't user Windows 7.
Oops!

You got confused with your grammar again, Frank, and I do own Win 7 and
*use* it.

--
Alias

Andrew wrote:


"Alias" wrote in message
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Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man, control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't have
Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously, pay no
attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the Windows
7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and can
do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup and
will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

--
Alias

Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.

How user unfriendly can MS get?

--
Alias

Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:

Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.

How user unfriendly can MS get?


Well, how about instead of opening msconfig, go to Start-
Administrative Tools-System Configuration - which opens msconfig.

To see Admin Tools on your Start Menu, right click on Start menu,
click Properties, click Start Menu tab, click Customize, near the
bottom of list there is System administrative tools - click Display on
the All Programs menu and the Start menu.

--
Joel Crump

"Joel" wrote in message
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Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:

Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.

How user unfriendly can MS get?


Well, how about instead of opening msconfig, go to Start-
Administrative Tools-System Configuration - which opens msconfig.

To see Admin Tools on your Start Menu, right click on Start menu,
click Properties, click Start Menu tab, click Customize, near the
bottom of list there is System administrative tools - click Display on
the All Programs menu and the Start menu.

--
Joel Crump


Autoruns would make this very easy, I use it to control items I want to
start up and do not want to start up.
If I click on the logon tab, it shows me everything set to automatically run
upon my startup and I can simply remove the check from items I do not want
to start. I just looked and sidebar.exe is included in the item list.
Don't have to go through msconfig, and can easily restore items you want to
start up once again.

You can get it he
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx







--
Don

Joel wrote:
Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.
How user unfriendly can MS get?


Well, how about instead of opening msconfig, go to Start-
Administrative Tools-System Configuration - which opens msconfig.

To see Admin Tools on your Start Menu, right click on Start menu,
click Properties, click Start Menu tab, click Customize, near the
bottom of list there is System administrative tools - click Display on
the All Programs menu and the Start menu.


More user unfriendly ways to stop a program from loading at boot. MS
should have made that option available in the Sidebar but that would
require caring what users want.

--
Alias

Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man, control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't have
Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously, pay no
attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the Windows
7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and can
do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup and
will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

How would know?

I use MS products, of course.

You don't user Windows 7.
Oops!

You got confused with your grammar again, Frank, and I do own Win 7 and
*use* it.

Keep lying...its still funny!
Oops!

Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:


"Alias" wrote in message
...
Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man, control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't have
Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously, pay no
attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the Windows
7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and can
do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup and
will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

--
Alias

Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.

How user unfriendly can MS get?

You don't have nor use 7 so why do you care?

Alias wrote:
Joel wrote:
Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.
How user unfriendly can MS get?


Well, how about instead of opening msconfig, go to Start-
Administrative Tools-System Configuration - which opens msconfig.

To see Admin Tools on your Start Menu, right click on Start menu,
click Properties, click Start Menu tab, click Customize, near the
bottom of list there is System administrative tools - click Display on
the All Programs menu and the Start menu.


More user unfriendly ways to stop a program from loading at boot. MS
should have made that option available in the Sidebar but that would
require caring what users want.

Why do you care...you don't have nor do you use 7. Oh I know...you hate
MS so much it makes the connection between your little brain and your
big mouth uncontrollable.
Oops!...LOL!

Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man, control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that choice.

It's just another way Microsoft keeps tabs on you.

How would you know? You've just a stupid uninformed, ill informed
lying linux troll.
Why is an idiot troll like you even in here huh?
Oh I almost forgot what you said a few days ago...you're here to make
this ng unusable.
Forget it cody...you're even too stupid to do that!
Oops!

The above is Frank thinking that he's "kicking my ass all over the ng".
LOL! What a lamer.

Thanks for proving my point cody...you MS hating lying linturd troll.

Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How
can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't
want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man,
control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to
run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS
doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that
choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't
have Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously,
pay no attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the
Windows 7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've
noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and can
do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup and
will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

How would know?

I use MS products, of course.

You don't user Windows 7.
Oops!

You got confused with your grammar again, Frank, and I do own Win 7
and *use* it.

Keep lying...its still funny!
Oops!

Um, being as you're not here, how would you know? You are ASSuming again
along with not writing English properly. In short, you and credibility
is an oxymoron.

--
Alias

Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Joel wrote:
Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.
How user unfriendly can MS get?


Well, how about instead of opening msconfig, go to Start-
Administrative Tools-System Configuration - which opens msconfig.

To see Admin Tools on your Start Menu, right click on Start menu,
click Properties, click Start Menu tab, click Customize, near the
bottom of list there is System administrative tools - click Display on
the All Programs menu and the Start menu.


More user unfriendly ways to stop a program from loading at boot. MS
should have made that option available in the Sidebar but that would
require caring what users want.

Why do you care...you don't have nor do you use 7.

How do you know what I own or use? You're not here so you obviously are
guessing and hoping what you say is true but, sorry Wank, it ain't true.

Oh I know...you hate
MS so much it makes the connection between your little brain and your
big mouth uncontrollable.
Oops!...LOL!

More leaps of logic. Ho hum.


--
Alias

Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Andrew wrote:


"Alias" wrote in message
...
Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup. How
can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't
want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man,
control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going to
run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS
doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that
choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't
have Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously,
pay no attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the
Windows 7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've
noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and can
do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup and
will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

--
Alias

Open msconfig from the runbox.
Go to the startup tab.
uncheck sidebar.exe
close msconfig.

to restart sidebar just type it into the runbox.

How user unfriendly can MS get?

You don't have nor use 7

Yes I do.

so why do you care?

I don't like the Sidebar loading automatically either, obviously

--
Alias

Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Alias wrote:
Frank wrote:
Zootal wrote:
Alias wrote in
:
Zootal wrote:
Frank wrote in :

Zootal wrote:
If I run the sidebar (sidebar.exe), it adds itself into the
registry so that it auto runs at the next windows startup.
How can
I run it when I want, but stop it from making itself autorun
everytime I run it?
IOW I want to run it when I feel like it, but I don't want it to
make itself autorun. How to do this?
Why not just right click on your desktop/view/show desktop
gadgets
and take the tick off "show desktop gadgets" when you don't
want to
view them?
I could, but that really isn't what I want. Control, man,
control. I
want to control when it runs, not have it tell me it is going
to run
at startup whether I want it to or not.
You've got the wrong operating system if you want control. MS
doesn't
do relinquishing control of Windows.


This isn't an OS issue, it's an application issue. Usually, such
programs allow you to choose whether they run at startup. For
reasons known only to Microsoft, sidebar doesn't give you that
choice.

cody, aka alias, is a known MS hating linturd troll. He doesn't
have Windows 7 so he knows nothing at all about it so obviously,
pay no attention to the stupid troll.

You can easily solve your "control" issue with sidebar.exe by
swapping the Windows 7 version of the sidebar.exe files with the
Vista version.
The Vista version is the original gadget version whereas the
Windows 7 version are handled just like desktop icons, as you've
noticed.

You'll need to take control of the W 7 files to do the swap and
can do that with this handy little take ownership reg hack at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/49...tricks-tweaks/

The Vista gadget setup will allow you to control gadget startup
and will place an icon in your taskbar.


Hacking usually is the way MS products can be controlled.

How would know?

I use MS products, of course.

You don't user Windows 7.
Oops!

You got confused with your grammar again, Frank, and I do own Win 7
and *use* it.

Keep lying...its still funny!
Oops!

Um, being as you're not here, how would you know?

You've left a trail of hints!
Oops!

You are ASSuming again
along with not writing English properly.

You think this is some kind of of an English class?
Hahahah...oh and who gives-a-**** about typos...LOL!

In short, you and credibility
is an oxymoron.

And you are simply a MORON!