如何修复损坏或悬挂的Vista侧栏

If you install a lot of different Vista Gadgets you might have come across a situation where your Vista Sidebar no longer is working correctly, or possibly even crashing or (more frequently) just hanging. You can reset the sidebar back to the default settings with a very simple tweak that we’ll explain here.

如果您安装了许多不同的Vista小工具，则可能会遇到Vista侧栏不再正常工作，甚至崩溃或挂起(更频繁)的情况。 您可以通过非常简单的调整将边栏重置为默认设置，我们将在此处进行说明。

This tweak is as simple as backing up a file and then renaming it… and when the Sidebar starts back up again it will reset to the default settings.

这项调整就像备份文件然后重命名一样简单……当补充工具栏再次备份时，它将重置为默认设置。

Note: By resetting to the default settings, you’ll have to add your gadgets back to the sidebar. Hardly a problem if your sidebar doesn’t even work anymore.

注意：通过重置为默认设置，您必须将小工具重新添加到侧边栏中。 如果您的侧边栏甚至不再起作用，这几乎不是问题。

Closing the Sidebar

关闭侧边栏

You’ll want to make sure that the sidebar process is completely closed before you do anything else… and just because you don’t see the sidebar doesn’t mean it’s not running in the background.

在执行其他任何操作之前，您需要确保完全关闭了侧边栏过程……而且，因为看不到侧边栏并不意味着它不在后台运行。

First, right-click on the Sidebar icon in the system tray, and then choose Exit. (wallpaper found here)

首先，右键单击系统托盘中的补充工具栏图标，然后选择“退出”。 (在这里找到墙纸)

You should receive a message asking if you really want to close, which you do.

您应该会收到一条消息，询问您是否真的要关闭，该怎么做。

Next you’ll want to check Task Manager to make sure that there are no sidebar.exe processes running that shouldn’t be. If there are, just right-click and use End Process on each of them.

接下来，您将要检查任务管理器，以确保没有任何不应运行的sidebar.exe进程正在运行。 如果有的话，只需右键单击并在每一个上使用End Process。

Resetting the Sidebar to Defaults

将边栏重置为默认值

Open up a windows explorer window and then paste the following into the location bar:

打开Windows资源管理器窗口，然后将以下内容粘贴到位置栏中：

%localappdata%\microsoft\Windows Sidebar

％localappdata％\ microsoft \ Windows侧边栏

This will open up the Sidebar gadgets folder, where you should see a file named Settings.ini.

这将打开Sidebar gadgets文件夹，您将在其中看到一个名为Settings.ini的文件。

You’ll want to rename this file to something else, or at least make a backup of the file elsewhere. This file contains your current sidebar configuration.

您将需要将此文件重命名为其他名称，或者至少将文件备份到其他位置。 该文件包含您当前的侧边栏配置。

Now once you re-launch Sidebar from the Start Menu, you’ll notice that a new Settings.ini is created immediately.

现在，从“开始”菜单重新启动补充工具栏后，您会注意到会立即创建一个新的Settings.ini。

If you are still having issues with a gadget, you can open up the Gadgets folder that you see above, and you’ll see a list of all user-installed gadgets:

如果小工具仍然存在问题，则可以打开上面看到的Gadgets文件夹，然后会看到所有用户安装的小工具的列表：

You can delete any of these folders if you want (always backup your files first).

您可以根据需要删除这些文件夹中的任何一个(始终先备份文件)。

With any luck, you should now have a working sidebar.

运气好的话，您现在应该可以正常使用侧边栏了。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-repair-your-crashed-or-hanging-vista-sidebar/