mmarable Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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