Windows Tip: Get the Vista sidebar in XP
Jake Bechtold | November 19, 2008
Time for a Windows Tip, and an interesting one, at that. If you love the Vista Sidebar, but hate everything else in Vista and want that sidebar in XP, not to worry. The Windows Sidebar Pack will help.
Installing the sidebar consists of installing three packages: Alky for Applications, Windows Sidebar Installer, and Gadget Extractor. Alky for Applications is where the magic happens allowing Vista-specific software to run under XP. An interesting side-effect of installing the Windows Sidebar Installer is that the Vista-specific fonts are added to your XP installation. Also, this is an XP version of the sidebar, not a hack from Vista, so all the Gadgets should work.
So now that you have the sidebar, who needs Vista? The Windows Sidebar pack is Windows XP only, and it 100% freel Enjoy!