help restoring my sidebar

I have Windows Vista Home Premium, I also have 2 cats that love walking on my
keyboard. One night they somehow added about 50+ calendars into my sidebar
and I have not found a way of removing them without my system crashing.

Is there some text file or some easy way I can just simply delete these or
flick a switch to have a fresh defaulted sidebar again?


Thanks in advance.

Hi Joe,

If you navigate to here:

C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar

you should find Settings.ini which contains details of all of the loaded
gadgets. You should be able to delete the extra calendar entries added by
your cats
--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP Windows Shell/User

"Joe" <> wrote in message
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>I have Windows Vista Home Premium, I also have 2 cats that love walking on
>my
> keyboard. One night they somehow added about 50+ calendars into my
> sidebar
> and I have not found a way of removing them without my system crashing.
>
> Is there some text file or some easy way I can just simply delete these or
> flick a switch to have a fresh defaulted sidebar again?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Or just delete the settings.ini file completely which will return his
sidebar to the out of box defaults and then he can re-add his gadgets
however he likes.

Chris

"Jane C" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Joe,
>
> If you navigate to here:
>
> C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
>
> you should find Settings.ini which contains details of all of the loaded
> gadgets. You should be able to delete the extra calendar entries added by
> your cats
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Joe" <> wrote in message
> news:1A917ED0-3A7C-439E-8B4A-...
>>I have Windows Vista Home Premium, I also have 2 cats that love walking on
>>my
>> keyboard. One night they somehow added about 50+ calendars into my
>> sidebar
>> and I have not found a way of removing them without my system crashing.
>>
>> Is there some text file or some easy way I can just simply delete these
>> or
>> flick a switch to have a fresh defaulted sidebar again?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>

You are my hero Jane, Thank you very much.

"Jane C" wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> If you navigate to here:
>
> C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
>
> you should find Settings.ini which contains details of all of the loaded
> gadgets. You should be able to delete the extra calendar entries added by
> your cats
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> "Joe" <> wrote in message
> news:1A917ED0-3A7C-439E-8B4A-...
> >I have Windows Vista Home Premium, I also have 2 cats that love walking on
> >my
> > keyboard. One night they somehow added about 50+ calendars into my
> > sidebar
> > and I have not found a way of removing them without my system crashing.
> >
> > Is there some text file or some easy way I can just simply delete these or
> > flick a switch to have a fresh defaulted sidebar again?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>

You're welcome


--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP Windows Shell/User

"Joe" <> wrote in message
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> You are my hero Jane, Thank you very much.
>
> "Jane C" wrote:
>

"Jane C" <> wrote in message
news:FDDD77F4-D77C-4A26-AE1E-...
> Hi Joe,
>
> If you navigate to here:
>
> C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
>
> you should find Settings.ini which contains details of all of the loaded
> gadgets. You should be able to delete the extra calendar entries added by
> your cats

Easier yet is just go into Control Panel, open the Sidebar Properties, then
either view list of running gadgets, and delete them, OR just click Restore
Gadgets installed with Windows.

--
Ok, I admit it, I killed Barney!!
http://www.lockergnome.com/darksentinel
You know what to do with the munge

I tried that first but the restore button was grayed out.

"DarkSentinel" wrote:

> "Jane C" <> wrote in message
> news:FDDD77F4-D77C-4A26-AE1E-...
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > If you navigate to here:
> >
> > C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
> >
> > you should find Settings.ini which contains details of all of the loaded
> > gadgets. You should be able to delete the extra calendar entries added by
> > your cats
>
> Easier yet is just go into Control Panel, open the Sidebar Properties, then
> either view list of running gadgets, and delete them, OR just click Restore
> Gadgets installed with Windows.
>
> --
> Ok, I admit it, I killed Barney!!
> http://www.lockergnome.com/darksentinel
> You know what to do with the munge
>

"Joe" <> wrote in message
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> I tried that first but the restore button was grayed out.

Then Jane's solution sounds like your best bet...

--
Ok, I admit it, I killed Barney!!
http://www.lockergnome.com/darksentinel
You know what to do with the munge