Can you get the Vista sidebar to autohide?

[Misiowiec]

Any idea if there's a way to make the Vista sidebar appear e.g. when the mouse hovers over it, and then fade away? I enjoy its functionality, but I don't love it enough to have it up all the time...

 

[superplay]

You could auto-hide the sidebar in early betas of Vista, however when it was removed and then re-added to the beta product the option to auto-hide was removed.

Also M$ do not have any short term plans to make it auto-hide.

 

[Misiowiec]

You could auto-hide the sidebar in early betas of Vista, however when it was removed and then re-added to the beta product the option to auto-hide was removed.

Also M$ do not have any short term plans to make it auto-hide.

Too bad! Anyone know if there's a 3rd party app that can sort this? One of the better ones is Windows Sidebar Styler, but that doesn't support autohide unfortunately.

 

[sepulchre]

The only way I've found to hide it is by clicking on the Show desktop icon in the quick launch tray, admitedly it hides everything lol