KTamas Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 IS there any way to rip lh's sidebar and run on Windows XP? Help me plz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Go to themeXP (link on neowin homepage) you can download one from there. Its called codename: dashboard and it has a longhorn skin. You need the .net framework for winXP installed. Its not actually that good so it might not be worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTamas Posted September 24, 2003 Author Share Posted September 24, 2003 No. I have CN:dashboard, but i want "offical", "original" LH's sidebar, not emulated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmel Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 thats.... impossible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 In that case i think this is impossible. It would be like trying to make the taskbar a program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTamas Posted September 24, 2003 Author Share Posted September 24, 2003 u saying impossible...but does any1 tried it to rip oit from LH and run it from XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberKewl Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 You can't just rip it and put it on XP and expect it to work. Although i haven't used longhorn myself, i doubt it's just an exe file where you can just copy it off and run it on another OS. Even if it is an exe, you'd probably need some other components that only longhorn has. What's more like it is that it is integrated into the OS and that, you can't rip (not that i know of). You can still use Codename Dashboard or Smartbar XP, they look pretty much like it but eat quite a lot of resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclingplatypus Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 It can happen here's what you have to do to get the official Longhorn sidebar to run on your XP machine: 1) Wait until 2005 2) Buy Longhorn upgrade 3) Install it! 4) Enjoy using the Longhorn (official) sidebar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTamas Posted September 24, 2003 Author Share Posted September 24, 2003 cycling:LOL! And....i dunno. I'll d/l LH 4029 and try it... Btw an xample:Win2000's cdplayer.exe is working under XP:.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight' Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 cycling:LOL!And....i dunno. I'll d/l LH 4029 and try it... Btw an xample:Win2000's cdplayer.exe is working under XP:.... That's because it's an .exe file. I believe the Longhorn sidebar is actually built into the shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted September 24, 2003 MVC Share Posted September 24, 2003 well I'm not gonna say its impossible because nothing is impossible they said the same thing about xbox emulation and N64 emulation. But the big problem your gonna face is that it looks like The side bar uses .NET Framework 1.2 currently only 1.1 is available. That's because it's an .exe file. I believe the Longhorn sidebar is actually built into the shell. I think that is pretty well true.. but under c:\windows\inf there is a sidebar.inf that gives the option to install when right clicked. Tried it in windows xp after I mounted my longhorn drive as a secondary it thought for a while.. but without the .net framework 1.2 its probably not gonna be successful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 well I'm not gonna say its impossible because nothing is impossible they said the same thing about xbox emulation and N64 emulation.But the big problem your gonna face is that it looks like The side bar uses .NET Framework 1.2 currently only 1.1 is available. I think that is pretty well true.. but under c:\windows\inf there is a sidebar.inf that gives the option to install when right clicked. Tried it in windows xp after I mounted my longhorn drive as a secondary it thought for a while.. but without the .net framework 1.2 its probably not gonna be successful If we can kindly get some whidbey tester to hand us the .NET Framework 1.2 there's the problem eliminated :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thornwithin Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 If you notice when explorer crashes (as it does alot) it takes the sidebar with it it making me think that the sidebar is a part of explorer. Since explorer is now managed code using the CLR I doubt you're gonna be able to just plop it into XP. I could be wrong but, I could be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonze Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 the sidebar in LH is definitely part of explorer. if you had the source you could probably make an exe that could work just like LH, but that's imposible. what's not imposible however is writing a sidebar that emulates LH, ie Dashboard. if they could edit explorer and write a sidebar into it, that would work, but i don't know if you could decompile explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 well I'm not gonna say its impossible because nothing is impossible they said the same thing about xbox emulation and N64 emulation.But the big problem your gonna face is that it looks like The side bar uses .NET Framework 1.2 currently only 1.1 is available. I think that is pretty well true.. but under c:\windows\inf there is a sidebar.inf that gives the option to install when right clicked. Tried it in windows xp after I mounted my longhorn drive as a secondary it thought for a while.. but without the .net framework 1.2 its probably not gonna be successful I have seen a beta or an alpha of .NET Framework 1.2 somewhere.. just cant remember if it was alpha or beta.. and where i saw it. :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 the sidebar in LH is definitely part of explorer. if you had the source you could probably make an exe that could work just like LH, but that's imposible. what's not imposible however is writing a sidebar that emulates LH, ie Dashboard. if they could edit explorer and write a sidebar into it, that would work, but i don't know if you could decompile explorer also, couldn't you just replace explorer in Xp with the explorer.exe from Longhorn? ... Just a thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTamas Posted September 25, 2003 Author Share Posted September 25, 2003 K guys, problem resolved...I d/l-ed and Installed LH 4029....its working...activation crack worked too....IT KEWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakyfriday Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 [Version] Signature= "$Windows NT$" LayoutFile = layout.inf DriverVer=10/01/2002,6.0.4008.0 [Optional Components] sidebar [sidebar] Needs = avalon Modes = 0,1,2,3 IconIndex = * OptionDesc = %sidebar_desc% Tip = %sidebar_tip% CopyFiles = assemblies Custom = GacIt, ngens, regasms Uninstall = Sidebaruninstall RegisterDlls=RegSvr SizeApproximation=1355776 [sidebaruninstall] ;none [assemblies] sidebar.txt,sidebar.txt,,64 ShellInterop.dll,shellio.dll,,64 Microsoft.Windows.Client.dll,mswincl.dll,,64 Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC1.dll,pplrtc1.dll,,64 Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC2.dll,pplrtc2.dll,,64 Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC-MSGR.dll,pplrtca.dll,,64 Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC-RTCv1.dll,pplrtcb.dll,,64 [DestinationDirs] assemblies = 10, Microsoft.NET\Avalon [GacIt] "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\gacutil.exe" /if %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\ShellInterop.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\gacutil.exe" /if %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.Client.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\gacutil.exe" /if %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC1.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\gacutil.exe" /if %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC2.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\gacutil.exe" /if %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC-MSGR.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\gacutil.exe" /if %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC-RTCv1.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon [ngens] "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\ngen.exe" %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\ShellInterop.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\ngen.exe" %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.Client.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\ngen.exe" %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC1.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\ngen.exe" %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC2.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\ngen.exe" %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC-MSGR.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\ngen.exe" %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC-RTCv1.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon [regasms] "%10%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.2.21213\regasm.exe" /silent /tlb %10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon\Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC1.dll,%10%\Microsoft.NET\Avalon [RegSvr] 10,Microsoft.NET\Avalon,Microsoft.Windows.PPLRTC2.dll,3 [strings] sidebar_desc="Sidebar" sidebar_tip="Sidebar" that was in sidebar.inf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 ok, so we need .NET Framework 1.2 and the sidebar is in an .INF file.... so is it possible for someone to figure out a way to get it into xp? Oh, and don't look at me for that :no: - I'm too WhAcKeD :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivion Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Codename Dashboard is a heavy memory consumer ?? love this sidebar of longhorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 yeh, Codename Dashboard is a heavy memory consumer.. i had it on my system at one stage, but when i noticed everything starting to slow down, i just uninstalled it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivion Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 i had the same problem with SmartBar XP as well.....it's better to wait for longhorn rather then slowin down our systems just for that bar, even though i have no problems with my ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychCom Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 hmm maybe i had a pre beta,a fake or something becouse this summer i was running the longhorn dashboard whit win xp sp1 and the .NET Framwork version 1.1.. when i get off work i will se if i havent deleted it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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