OK, as you have probably guessed, I’m not a fan of windows sidebar – I find it pointless and annoying, especially when I have a screen on my keyboard which is usually set to display multicore CPU usage, memory usage, bandwidth etc etc (it’s a Logitech G15 keyboard -2nd edition/orange one- if your curious). It just clutters the desktop and system tray, and uses resources (which is admitedly almost negligable, but if there are loads of things like that running then it all adds up).
Anyway, back to the point. I can’t disable it. I know you would usually just go to the properties (either by right clicking on the sys-tray icon or through the control panel) and un-tick run on startup (or whatever it’s called). I did that soon after I built my computer and it worked for ages, but then it somehow got switched back on (I think it might have been windows update) and now that method does nothing. You untick it and it has no effect (if you go into the properties again it will be re-ticked). I have also tried disableing the startup item through msconfig, but it has the same effect (i.e. none, and it’s as if I had never touched it).
I am running Vista Ultimate 32-bit with SP1, and have UAC disabled if that’s significant. I have no viruses that my antivirus can find.
Any help would be much appreciated.
