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Keep up to date with the latest Windows Vista news with our new Windows Sidebar gadget

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By Matthew Hanson on 26 September 2008

We are happy to announce that our new Windows Sidebar gadget is now available for download. Made by the gadget experts at www.buildagadget.com, the Windows Vista: The Official Magazine gadget gives you direct access to the latest news stories from our web site. If you need help or information about any aspect of Windows Vista, you can search our comprehensive collection of online articles straight from your desktop, so finding out about Windows Vista is easier than ever!

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How to install

Click here to download the Windows Vista Magazine gadget. Click Download, and then select Open from the following dialogue box:

When the next dialogue box appears, click Run.

Finally click Install to add the gadget.

Using the gadget

Once the gadget is installed it will appear in your Windows Sidebar, as shown above. You can drag and drop the gadget to anywhere on your desktop – outside of the Sidebar the gadget will switch to large mode.

Clicking on a headline will open up the article in the gadget’s browser window. From here you can view the article, resize the window and search our web site.

To search our site type in what you are looking for in the Search site for… text box at the bottom of the gadget, then press Enter.

Configuring the gadget

There are plenty of options you can change to make the Windows Vista Magazine gadget work just how you want it to. To change the options, hover your mouse over the gadget and click on the monkey wrench icon.

From the screen below you can change the size of the gadget when docked in the Sidebar, whether articles are shown in the gadget’s fly-out browser or in your default browser (such as Internet Explorer), and how often the headlines are refreshed.

We hope you enjoy the gadget, please let us know what you think in the comments section below!

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Really Nice :)

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26/09/08 | 04:45

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schooooweeet!

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26/09/08 | 05:32

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love the new gadget,keep up the good work

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26/09/08 | 05:55

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not sure how u vote so il just give it 10 out of 10

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26/09/08 | 06:08

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Thanks very much very helpfull

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26/09/08 | 08:53

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Great gadget,really like it

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26/09/08 | 10:43

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Thanks so much. I've been waiting for you. The wait was well worth it!

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27/09/08 | 07:23

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Why does it close when you click view article?

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27/09/08 | 02:00

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anonymous

Ditto - Why does the gadget close when you click view article?

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28/09/08 | 02:18

Pandrogas

Is the whole gadget closing or just the flyout? Either way, you might be able to get around it by going to Settings -> Options -> Feed -> Check "go Straight To Article", that should open the article up directly in either the fyout or browser instead of stepping through the summary.

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29/09/08 | 01:01

syy

Mine disappears as well. When I click to view a particular article the whole Windows magazine disappears from the side-bar.

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26/11/08 | 11:08

philandpatti

I've gotton used to that bing one more instance of how Vista works

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19/01/09 | 08:04

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looks good any chance of question to be include as well as news

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27/09/08 | 05:14

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Thanks very much. I really like this new gadget.

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27/09/08 | 08:22

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Now it's finished, it's excellent. Thanks very much for the nudge that it was ready for download. I hoped to see it after playing around with it initially. All the links to the various articles now work perfectly. Very well done.

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28/09/08 | 10:42

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excellent gadget , great way to keep up to date , dont like the colour tho any chance of some different colour options , otherwise its really cool

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02/10/08 | 12:30

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Just down loaded the new sidebar gadget,but every time I use it,it takes me to a web page called (study hard,work faster,have fun)can anyone help or advise.

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03/10/08 | 07:15

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Matthew Hanson

Hi Phil. It sounds like the gadget is getting confused with the pop-up advert on the web site. To get around this, either try clicking on the article again, with the study hard etc. web page still in the background, or change the options for the gadget to open the article in your default browser. To do this, go to the options (as described in the article above) and then click on the Options tab. Select Show Results In: Browser and then click OK. Hope this helps.

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07/10/08 | 10:49

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Been using this for a few days and now all of a sudden I am receiving runtime errors, I had to unistall it.

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11/10/08 | 05:02

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Nar271

I really like it

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24/11/08 | 02:05

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this gadget is very usefull and it`s very pratical to ues to find almost anythink. welldone

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25/12/08 | 05:52

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muthu22

I really love this article. this is great idea to develop this article. its a great job.thanks..........
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31/01/09 | 05:05

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Desn't work properly for me! Each time I try to view an article, I get this error:

Do you want to debug this webpage?
This webpage contains errors that might prevent it from displaying properly or working correctly. If you are not testing this webpage, click No.

Line: 224
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times but always get the same problem.

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26/04/09 | 06:46

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brillllllllllllll

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12/05/09 | 07:07

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I have used this gadget for about a month or so. Suddenly it is not working, Says no connection Retry, however I am connected to the WWW snd can surf, mail etc all ok. Reloaded the gadget and still not working. Very disappointed as it was a cracking gadget while it worked. Can anyone help?

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06/06/09 | 10:31

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Russgol

Russgol

I have exactly the same problem and was not able to solve it.
Removing and re-installing this gadget does not solve the probem.

06.06.09

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06/06/09 | 12:33

steveo

This is due to domain change of the website, so the link is not correctly locked onto the feed from 'officialwindowsmagazine' but the now non existant 'windowsvistamagazine'
Maybe they will bring out a new gadget with the new name rather than the old version, or there might just be an update for the existing version.!?

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19/06/09 | 02:15

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hansa1

The gadget is broken since June. They know about it, has to do with domain change. They should stop providing the download until it is fixed. In the meantime they are driving people crazy that don't realize that it can't work at all causing them to waste time figuring out it isn't their computer. They should put a notice in place of the download until it is fixed. That would be the considerate thing to do.

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08/07/09 | 12:55

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hansa1 has a very good point, so what is wrong with you guys? This is certainly no way to promote good will among your supporters.
Could you possibly not realize what jerks you are being by NOT informing your supporters about this or are you just embarrassed that you do not have the skills to fix this?
I am really F%(*$#@ tired of reinstalling your gadget every now and then and clicking on the RETRY button over and over again. Why does it say RETRY?? Just to piss me off even more?

FIX YOUR DAMN GADGET!!!!!

zbuckone

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26/08/09 | 08:52

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BuildAGadget

Fixed!

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17/09/09 | 09:54

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Gershon

I'm not impressed that you still have a link to a sidebar gadget that doesn't work anymore. Will there be an update with new link?

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04/09/09 | 07:27

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BuildAGadget

The gadget is now working, use the download link in the article and it will take you to the updated page.

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17/09/09 | 09:54

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Sorry about the delay on this, but the gadget is up and running now, you can use the download link above to re-download the new copy or check our blog for the details of what was updated: http://www.buildagadget.com/Blog/archives/406

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17/09/09 | 09:56

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steveo

Brilliant, thanks for finally updating gadget, been waiting for an age now!!!

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07/10/09 | 06:53

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