Get Vista SideBar in Window XP

It has been about 2 years time since Windows Vista officially launched to end user, there are still a lot of people sticking back to Windows XP, myself included. But there aren’t enough attractive features to tempt me to switch to Vista, one that i do like is the Vista Sidebar. Deviantart user joshoon has posted a package that allows you to install the real Vista sidebar on your Windows XP computer.

Installing the sidebar consists of installing three packages: Alky for Applications, Windows Sidebar Installer, and Gadget Extractor. Alky for Applications is where the magic happens allowing Vista-specific software to run under XP. An interesting side-effect of installing the Windows Sidebar Installer is that the Vista-specific fonts are added to your XP installation.

Because this is an XP-compatible version of the actual Vista sidebar rather than a copy, all of the widgets that you could install in Vista will work on XP.

[via gHacks]