Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Wndows 7: Making your Right click gadgets launch in 32 bit mode

In Windows 7, I have found closing and relaunching my Pandora sidebarr application really easy to do from the Right-click gadgets context menu. Unfortunately, since flash is not supported in 64 bit, apps like Pandora won't work properly. There are a few hints on how to launch sidebar by default in 32 bit, but I found that when I would close and relaunch using this, it would launch in 64 bit again.

The fix, is simple:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DesktopBackground\Shell\Gadgets\command
Edit the Default REG_SZ entry to include the x86 path of:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /showGadgets

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