you can always set the opacity of all gadgets to all the way down to 20% -
then when you hover over them they brighten to 100%

not much of a workaround I know, but better then nothing



"JP" <jp********.com> wrote in message
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> Interestingly - I think in RC1 - you could auto hide the sidebar, but in
> subsequent
> releases, they removed it. Not sure why.
>
>
>
> "Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:eK5uJ$aTHHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> "Magnu" <Magnu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I'd like to be able to move my mouse to the right of the desktop and get
>>> the
>>> sidebar to come out, and then hide again when I remove the mouse. I can
>>> close
>>> the sidebar and re-open it from the icon by the clock. However, there
>>> doesn't
>>> seem to be any way to auto-hide the sidebar like you can the taskbar.
>>> Looking
>>> in help under "Customizing Windows Sidebar" it says you can "hide" the
>>> sidebar. But outside of closing it and reopening it via the icon, or
>>> simply
>>> covering it with a full screen window, I don't see any way to really
>>> hide it.[/color]
>>
>> No, there is no auto-hide feature for the sidebar.
>>
>> --
>> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell][/color]
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