Sidebar is a major feature in Windows Vista which boosts your personal productivity by providing instant access to gadgets—a wide variety of engaging, easy-to-use, and customizable mini-applications that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools.I recently covered some post about 12 Sidebar For XP. I also make a list on 7 Vista Sidebar Skins For Thoosoje Sidebar which is great to replace the old looks to a fresh geeky interface. Thoosoje is one of the best sidebar in the list but it can't use the gadgets from Windows Vista Gallery site over at Microsoft.

Joshoon managed to port a real vista sidebar for Windows XP use by making a good use of Alky for Application. With Alky for Application., it's possible for us to use vista-created-for apps like the Vista Sidebar or the games like Shadowrun and Halo 2.

 This Vista Sidebar was packed with Alky For Application, that makes it possible to open software created for vista, a Windows Sidebar Installer and a gadget extractor, that makes it possible to add new gadgets to your windows Sidebar.



With it's ability to download and use gadgets from Windows Vista Gallery, you can use any gadgets and that maximize the useablity of this sidebar. Adding gadgets to the sidebar require you to extract the content from the .gadget file that you've downloaded. You can extract it with the Gadget Extractor, which was packed in the file or you can easily use 7-zip.

How to install the real vista sidebar for XP:

* Free download Joshoon vista sidebar for XP
* Extract the contents of the zip to any location on your PC
* Install Alky For Application
* Install vista sidebar by running the Windows_Sidebar_Installer
* Finally add gadgets using gadget extractor

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