Disable autorun for sidebar.exe permanently

Hello, I want to disable the autorun for the windows sidebar. If I uncheck the box for it in 'msconfig' and reboot the pc it works fine. But whenever I start the sidebar, the box in 'msconfig' is checked again. Is there a way to start sidebar without enabling the autorun for it automatically?

Thanks, gorgos

Yes! That's because I use the pc as a server for many services (AirVideo, VNC, DVBServer, JDownloader..) and I boot it via Wake on LAN. So it should only run the necessary programs (and I don't need the sidebar for that). But if I am using the pc directly I made a batch that starts all other programs I usually need (including sidebar).

Try to use CCleaner and disable it?

That won't work, because sidebar.exe adds itself on every start automatically to autorun. But here is my workaround:

.BAT:

Code:

START C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"Windows Sidebar"\sidebar.exe
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 5000 >NUL
regedit /s C:\RemoveSidebar.reg

And the RemoveSidebar.reg file:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Sidebar"=-