Hotkey to show the Windows Vista Sidebar

One of the very few things I liked about Yahoo Widgets (formerly Konfabulator), and one of the only things, was that you could assign a hotkey to bring all of the widgets to the front. I use Harvest for time tracking, DU Meter for bandwidth monitoring (see my modified numeric-only DU Meter sidebar gadget) and the built-in weather gadget. I don't need – or want – to see all of these all the time, but I do like to be able to glance at them all at once, just like the Dashboard allows in OS X.

If you press and hold the Start menu key and then press the space bar (Start+Space) the sidebar and all gadgets will be brought to the front. This is the same as double clicking on the Sidebar tray icon . As far as I can tell there is no hotkey combination to hide the sidebar or send it to to the back of all windows.

Tags: Gadget, Sidebar, Tips, Vista, Windows

Posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm | Filed under Software, Technology
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One Response to “Hotkey to show the Windows Vista Sidebar”

SuperAwesomeBlog Guy Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I found another method to bring up or hide the Vista Sidebar using any hot key or hot key combination you like (including the mouse) using a program called HotKeyP. I posted instructions for how to do it at my site:

http://www.superawesomeblog.com/?p=518

Hope it helps! :)

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