Why not take the gadgets that you want to still display, off of the sidebar,
and then close the sidebar to the system tray? (right-click on the sidebar,
and select "close sidebar".) This will hide the sidebar, but will still
allow you to right-click the taskbar icon to add new gadgets.

"intclass" <intclass@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In the nice slick UI that I have in front of me, the "Add Gadgets" button
> (and next page buttons) are rather lame looking... maybe you can make it
> so
> we tick a box and they go away, and then to add gadgets you just right
> click
> the taskbar icon![/color]