Windows Siddebar Problem

[Lance(HAOH)]

My Windows Sidebar has disappeared all of a sudden and I tried to check the box that will enable windows sidebar to show at startup but sidebar does not and whenI click the windows sidebar icon in C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar,I still get no response.I heard from some people that the command prompt could be used to fix this problem.But I do not know how to,could someone please help?

[goughy000]

when you click to run it open up task manager (CTRL ALT DELETE) and go on the processes tab.

Look for sidebar.exe

is it in the list?

I know this can happen if one of your widgets goes a bit crazy and if you disable the widget from another config utility the sidebar will start to work again as if nothing ever happened.

[Lance(HAOH)]

No,it is not.What do I do next please?

[goughy000]

okay try running this simple tutorial:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-v...a-sidebar/

go through with the tutorial even if you are having different symptoms at the top

[Lance(HAOH)]

Could I also use the Command Prompt to solve my sidebar problem?

[goughy000]

why?

i suppose you can if you REALLY want to...

but all your doing is renaming a file