Pre-configuration of Sidebar Gadgets using unattend.xml

posted by  claire (62)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

We’ve heard from several OEMs who are having trouble pre-configuring Sidebar gadgets using the Sidebar unattend settings. We will explain in more detail how these settings work.

First, the Sidebar unattend settings are overrides for the default gadget settings. To determine what the default Sidebar gadget settings are, you can examine the “%programfiles%\Windows Sidebar\settings.ini” file. The default settings.ini file that shipped with Vista contains the following information (note that this can change between versions of Windows):

[Root]SettingsVersion=00.00.00.01SidebarShowState=ImplodedSidebarDockedPartsOrder=0x1,0x2,0x3,Section0=1Section1=2Section2=3[Section 1]PrivateSetting_GadgetName=%PROGRAMFILES%\windows