Vista Sidebar Issues

I just installed IE8 today (4/29/09) and I still am unable to get the Windows
Vista Sidebar Clock and CPU Meter to work; they are frozen. This also
occurred when I installed IE8 RC1 and IE8 Final public release on 3/18/09, I
then uninstalled IE8 and reverted back to IE7 where both worked properly. On
both of these previous installations I contacted IE8 Live Support but they
were unable to resolve the freezing issues.
Today I deleted both the Vista clock and CPU Meter and installed the Omega
Clock and the All CPU Usage Meter (dual core w/o temperature). They both
work just fine. I have no other apparent issues with IE8....Curious!
I am using:
Levono T61p, Vista Ultimate SP1, T7700 2.4 GHz, 4GB Ram.
Adabe acrobat 9.1, Adobe Flash 10,Google Earth 6.0, Google toolbar, Symantec
Endpoint 11.0 with all current updates.

Altoid666

"Altoid666" <> wrote in message
news:6C5B780D-0578-4ED4-86EB-...
>I just installed IE8 today (4/29/09) and I still am unable to get the
>Windows
> Vista Sidebar Clock and CPU Meter to work; they are frozen. This also
> occurred when I installed IE8 RC1 and IE8 Final public release on 3/18/09,
> I
> then uninstalled IE8 and reverted back to IE7 where both worked properly.
> On
> both of these previous installations I contacted IE8 Live Support but they
> were unable to resolve the freezing issues.
> Today I deleted both the Vista clock and CPU Meter and installed the Omega
> Clock and the All CPU Usage Meter (dual core w/o temperature). They both
> work just fine. I have no other apparent issues with IE8....Curious!
> I am using:
> Levono T61p, Vista Ultimate SP1, T7700 2.4 GHz, 4GB Ram.
> Adabe acrobat 9.1, Adobe Flash 10,Google Earth 6.0, Google toolbar,
> Symantec
> Endpoint 11.0 with all current updates.

To the best of my knowledge nothing has changed since the last time you
posted about this issue. The only resolution(s) to date for the issue is to
set the DPI setting back to Vista's default value of "96" or remove the
System Clock from the Sidebar(as you've apparently done).

Good luck,

Donald Anadell


>
> Altoid666
>

Just an aside, the reason I downloaded IE8 today was that it was included in
a group of updates from Microsoft Updates. My thinking was that since it was
offered generally to the puplic maybe my Sidebar issues would now be
resolved.

Altoid666


"Donald Anadell" wrote:

>
> "Altoid666" <> wrote in message
> news:6C5B780D-0578-4ED4-86EB-...
> >I just installed IE8 today (4/29/09) and I still am unable to get the
> >Windows
> > Vista Sidebar Clock and CPU Meter to work; they are frozen. This also
> > occurred when I installed IE8 RC1 and IE8 Final public release on 3/18/09,
> > I
> > then uninstalled IE8 and reverted back to IE7 where both worked properly.
> > On
> > both of these previous installations I contacted IE8 Live Support but they
> > were unable to resolve the freezing issues.
> > Today I deleted both the Vista clock and CPU Meter and installed the Omega
> > Clock and the All CPU Usage Meter (dual core w/o temperature). They both
> > work just fine. I have no other apparent issues with IE8....Curious!
> > I am using:
> > Levono T61p, Vista Ultimate SP1, T7700 2.4 GHz, 4GB Ram.
> > Adabe acrobat 9.1, Adobe Flash 10,Google Earth 6.0, Google toolbar,
> > Symantec
> > Endpoint 11.0 with all current updates.
>
> To the best of my knowledge nothing has changed since the last time you
> posted about this issue. The only resolution(s) to date for the issue is to
> set the DPI setting back to Vista's default value of "96" or remove the
> System Clock from the Sidebar(as you've apparently done).
>
> Good luck,
>
> Donald Anadell
>
>
> >
> > Altoid666
> >
>
>
>

Why would you make that presumption, when there is so much publicly
available information about the new and updated features of Internet
Explorer 8?
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Altoid666 wrote:
> Just an aside, the reason I downloaded IE8 today was that it was included in
> a group of updates from Microsoft Updates. My thinking was that since it was
> offered generally to the puplic maybe my Sidebar issues would now be
> resolved.
>
> Altoid666
>
>
> "Donald Anadell" wrote:
>
>> "Altoid666" <> wrote in message
>> news:6C5B780D-0578-4ED4-86EB-...
>>> I just installed IE8 today (4/29/09) and I still am unable to get the
>>> Windows
>>> Vista Sidebar Clock and CPU Meter to work; they are frozen. This also
>>> occurred when I installed IE8 RC1 and IE8 Final public release on 3/18/09,
>>> I
>>> then uninstalled IE8 and reverted back to IE7 where both worked properly.
>>> On
>>> both of these previous installations I contacted IE8 Live Support but they
>>> were unable to resolve the freezing issues.
>>> Today I deleted both the Vista clock and CPU Meter and installed the Omega
>>> Clock and the All CPU Usage Meter (dual core w/o temperature). They both
>>> work just fine. I have no other apparent issues with IE8....Curious!
>>> I am using:
>>> Levono T61p, Vista Ultimate SP1, T7700 2.4 GHz, 4GB Ram.
>>> Adabe acrobat 9.1, Adobe Flash 10,Google Earth 6.0, Google toolbar,
>>> Symantec
>>> Endpoint 11.0 with all current updates.
>> To the best of my knowledge nothing has changed since the last time you
>> posted about this issue. The only resolution(s) to date for the issue is to
>> set the DPI setting back to Vista's default value of "96" or remove the
>> System Clock from the Sidebar(as you've apparently done).
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Donald Anadell
>>
>>
>>> Altoid666
>>>
>>
>>