So the sidebar is going (windows7)

movingtables · 23 Mar 2009 at 11:55

I just read the sidebar wont be a feauture on Windows 7.
Its one of the few features I like about Vista.

wonder why they are dropping it?

will you miss it ?

ALLI · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:00

No side bar per se but you can drag your widgets onto anywhere on the desktop. So it's still there, you're just not restricted to where you have the bar.

It's a lot nicer IMHO.

Tom84 · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:02

Second thing I get rid off on new Vista builds

So no I wont miss it

movingtables · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:03

ALLI said:
No side bar per se but you can drag your widgets onto anywhere on the desktop. So it's still there, you're just not restricted to where you have the bar.

It's a lot nicer IMHO.

ah right cool i like my gadgets

movingtables · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:09

Tom84 said:
Second thing I get rid off on new Vista builds

So no I wont miss it

whats the 1st thing?

Slinky1989 · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:12

Never used it. So no, definately won't be missing. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason it's there at all is to make my desktop look untidy.

bledd · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:15

movingtables said:
whats the 1st thing?

defender real-time scanning or system restore i presume

or tweakuac

NathanE · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:21

I never "got" the Vista Sidebar anyway. It just seemed like a complete waste of screen space.

Although I don't "get" the new W7 Taskbar either

bledd · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:23

nathan

the taskbar is awesome once you start using it properly -ie, with the previews etc

i was a little sceptical at first, but it is much better

Tom84 · 23 Mar 2009 at 12:43

movingtables said:
whats the 1st thing?

UAC

Nick1881 · 23 Mar 2009 at 13:21

I use a few gadgets in Vista and I put them in the same place in Win7 so its no different.

Nanoman · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:24

The sidebar is cool imo, I use it a lot for monitoring ram cpu network torrent usage etc. Some boring people in this thread!

Do you want Vista to look like 95 or something?

reflux · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:25

Never found gadgets in any way useful, or anything more than a waste of system resources and an eyesore on screen, so I don't mind either way.

mrk · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:25

Sidebar is VERY useful, works in win7 even with UAC disabled..

neil_g · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:35

Nanoman said:
The sidebar is cool imo, I use it a lot for monitoring ram cpu network torrent usage etc.

you mean you use the sidebar to see how much memory and cpu the sidebar is chomping through...

mrk · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:37

Eh? it uses <50mb ram and most people here have at leats 6GB. It's good to see other app ram/core usage though and much more like notes and other gadgets.

Nanoman · 23 Mar 2009 at 14:54

Task Manager says my sidebar is using 34Mb of RAM and flucates between 00 and 01% usage. Something I can live with tbh as I do have a fair few gadgets. I think the old "it uses loads of resources" malarky is BS imo enless I was on a pretty slow CPU and <1Gb RAM.

neil_g · 23 Mar 2009 at 15:03

im sorry my sarcasm was turned up to 11.

Nick1881 · 23 Mar 2009 at 15:05

reflux said:
Never found gadgets in any way useful, or anything more than a waste of system resources and an eyesore on screen, so I don't mind either way.

But you have 3.8Ghz i7 with 6Gb of ram, like your gonna notice it.

Greenlizard0 · 23 Mar 2009 at 15:09

I have to say I'm a fan of the sidebar, useful for drive info, cpu usage, ram, network speeds etc and nice large clock.