Comments on: Vista Search Index Gadget: Pause & Start Indexing

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:47:49 +0000

Thank’s alot. it works successfully on Windows Sidebar (ported) on Xp with .Net Framework 3.0 and WDS 3.01/4.0 installed

Huh, that's interesting that you got it to work on XP as well.

By: Amirz

Amirz — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:32:00 +0000

Thank’s alot. it works successfully on Windows Sidebar (ported) on Xp with .Net Framework 3.0 and WDS 3.01/4.0 installed

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:57:52 +0000

Have you tried not saving it to your desktop and just running it? You don’t want to unpack the gadget because it has a special “.gadget” extension that needs to be maintained.

By: doctorhip

doctorhip — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:18:00 +0000

OK, you got me on the right track. Turns out that going thru IE and using WinRAR, I did get the gadget file opened and unpacked on the Desktop. The thing is, it seems that I’m missing something very basic on how to get the gadget actually *installed* on the machine and into the Sidebar. I’m sure we’re talking about doing something very simple here – I just don’t know what it is. Nothing urgent, of course, so whenever you get a chance. I’m already blown away by the caring nature that you two bring to this one-of-a-kind cyber information website. Good stuff, guys.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:29:07 +0000

doctorhip wrote:

I like the idea of this gadget for my Vista machine, and I was able to download it easily. The thing is, when I went to run the file to install it, I got the dialog box saying “Windows cannot open this file” and “Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it.” Any help with what I need to do to get this gadget file installed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Try opening it in Internet Explorer. That might work better for you.

By: doctorhip

doctorhip — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:05:07 +0000

I like the idea of this gadget for my Vista machine, and I was able to download it easily. The thing is, when I went to run the file to install it, I got the dialog box saying “Windows cannot open this file” and “Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it.” Any help with what I need to do to get this gadget file installed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:17:46 +0000

Michael Dobrofsky wrote:

I can’t believe someone hasn’t made a Yahoo Mail Checker gadget yet

Haven’t tried it myself, but a quick search turned up this gadget:
[gallery.live.com]

Not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.

Brandon Paddock wrote:

pemar – I updated the gadget yesterday to fix the issue you described. Can you try again and see if the download works now? Thanks.

Thanks for updating us Brandon!

By: Brandon Paddock

Brandon Paddock — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:35:57 +0000

pemar – I updated the gadget yesterday to fix the issue you described. Can you try again and see if the download works now? Thanks.

Unfortunately, to uninstall it you must disable the gadget (ie. close it), then *restart* the Sidebar, and then uninstall it normally. This is due to a bug in how the Sidebar handles gadgets that load code from DLLs. Once the gadget is loaded, the Sidebar process never lets go until you close it.

By: pemar

pemar — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:22:03 +0000

I have tried it on vista ultimate. “Index now” doesn’t work – it cannot find some script. Then I tried to reinstall it but it doesn’t show on gadget list. Second installation did not help – just got another version of the same gadget.
Gadget sounds great but it doesn’t work for me. I think its inability to uninstall is a major fault.

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:55:48 +0000

I can’t believe someone hasn’t made a Yahoo Mail Checker gadget yet

This one looks good, though. Will try it out. Thanks.