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
Labels: Windows 7
posted by Chris @ 5:57 PM
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I just recently tried to do this again on my new x64 laptop, and I forgot that I had some permissions issues that I didn't originally blog about. If you receive an "error writing the values new contents" error in regedit, then follow instructions here to take ownership and set permissions on the "command" folder.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/09/02/grant-read-write-full-control-permissions-on-registry-keys-fix-cannot-import-and-access-denied-error-in-regedit/
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