You don't have to install the old one, Just go to wincert and download the Skin Patches I attached to My Post I included 9 different Skins in 2 Variations for a total of 18 Skin Choices and a Virgin sidebar.exe for skin patching, then you just copy and overwrite the old sidebar.exe in %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar then you patch and run vista executable and your skin and vaio patched sidebar is done You can also repack your preferred skin back into the addon, just make sure its been skin and vaio patched before you repack it into sidebar.cab in my addon Keep applying and trying skin patches to the sidebar.exe untill you find one you like (I like the None skin) You might have to register @WinCert to view and download the atachment, I tried ataching it to the post here above but only 200K is allowed