Stardock SideBarPlus? What's this?

Saturday, May 26, 2007 by thomassen | Discussion: Stardock Support General

Explorer just crashed on me. And then it restarted I found this new icon on my system tray. It's a blue plus sign and the tooltip says "Stardock SideBarPlus".

Right click menu got two items:
* Release All Associations
* Exit

Clicking on it does nothing.

Double clicking opens notepad.

What is this thing?
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Reply #1 Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:37 PM
It appears an internal DesktopX Pro 3.5 beta has lept the wall and made a bid for freedom. That's part of the XGF framework for allowing DesktopX gadgets or .NET apps to be run as part of the Vista sidebar.

I'll just break out the nets and tranqualizer guns and tuck it back for the weekend. Please continue to use the DesktopX 3.2 release instead.

Kris

thomassen
Reply #2 Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:48 PM
whooopsie!
So that's why there was no docs for the new beta features. Well, the exported seemed to work fine.

...

thomassen runs and hides!
c242
Reply #3 Saturday, May 26, 2007 4:47 PM
Doh, at leat I had something to play with for several hours. Wondered a bit, that there was no official statement.
ArileenDesign
Reply #4 Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:16 PM
that explain some things
DorkCoffeez
Reply #5 Saturday, May 26, 2007 7:14 PM
Should there be further issues like this please start a ticket with us at [email protected]. Since the changes have been taken down we don't expect anything further. However we would like to document anything else that could be occuring.

Thanks much.
thomassen
Reply #6 Saturday, May 26, 2007 7:40 PM
Right'o! Will hold off any further reports until the real beta comes out.
I've got a list of my own of things I'll be testing.

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