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I'm looking to deploy a couple of Sidebar gadgets that we've developed to our workstations.

Is there a way to silently install a Sidebar gadget, or am I going to have to get creative?

I was thinking that I could extract the gadget file's contents and then do a simple file copy, but I didn't know if Vista's Sidebar would pick up on them then.

I'm imaging a VM to test with, so I thought I'd ask while I wait on ImageX to finish.

Thanks

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Yes...mount the wim file with imagex and add the installed gadgets, if you want to set the default gadgets you can do this with autounattended.xml

		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Sidebar" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Gadget1>%PROGRAMFILES%\windows sidebar\shared gadgets\LiveClock.Gadget,true</Gadget1>
<Gadget2>%PROGRAMFILES%\windows sidebar\shared gadgets\GCPU.Gadget,true</Gadget2>
<Gadget3>%PROGRAMFILES%\windows sidebar\shared gadgets\MSNWeather.Gadget,true</Gadget3>
<Gadget4>%PROGRAMFILES%\windows sidebar\shared gadgets\WMP.Gadget,true</Gadget4>
<Gadget5>%PROGRAMFILES%\windows sidebar\shared gadgets\RecycleBin.Gadget,true</Gadget5>

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