Vista Sidebar

This page can be used to configure the displayed Vista Sidebar items for the Hardware Monitoring feature. Please scroll down to read explanation for this page.

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Enable Vista Sidebar support

This option can be used to enable publishing sensor values to Vista Sidebar. The EVEREST Vista Sidebar gadget is automatically copied to the Sidebar gadgets folder, but the gadget itself needs to be activated manually by adding the gadget to the Sidebar. Both Windows Vista RTM and Windows XP with Vista 5744 Sidebar for XP
is supported.

Background color

This option configures the background color of the EVEREST Vista Sidebar gadget. Background color should be selected to ensure proper text readability.

Configuration

When selecting one of the Vista Sidebar items in the list and pressing the "Configure" button the following configuration window appears:

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Background and text colors should be selected to ensure proper text readability.