SmartBarXP for Windows

User Reviews

• Very Nice for Beta!!

  Nintendo01November 23, 2007

  Pros

  This program does pretty much everything I want it to, and even skins with my Windows Blinds! Amazing!

  Cons

  I have it docked on the right side of my screen and the icon for the start button (from the skin) gets chopped off by about five pixels on the left side and the missing part appears in the border to the left of the options pull-down. Also it will totally glitch up for a few seconds sometimes; the start menu (if transparent from the skin) will display the icons behind it in it's normal taskbar place; and for some reason it won't let me type in FireFox sometimes. I'll have the cursor in the text box I want to type in and, when I type, FireFox will pull up the quick find thing and it won't type in the box I want. Oh, and the only weather thing that will pull up any city in the city finder is the BBC Weather, and even then it won't display any weather info. Other than those few minor details, this is wonderful!

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• excellent sidebar and a very handy addition

  RIC&RAYEMay 21, 2007

  Pros

  very little flaws and works well and is easy to use

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• 0 star!!!it messed up my all microsoft office and windows configuration!

  bellisimanzMarch 13, 2006

  Pros

  NONE!!!!

  Cons

  never download this useless programme! it is tricky and painful but yet not classified as a bug!when you try to uninstall it this message comes up= msmapi32.ocx is not used by any programme, you can press yes to delete it or no to keep, it wont change anything!never ever press yes to any of those popups if you want to keep your office n windows running smooth!otherwise you are doomed to waste all your day trying to figure out where you have made a mistake! you did it by downloading this piece of nasty work!

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• Problems with beta version

  unclearn007October 22, 2005

  Pros

  Nice design.

  Cons

  When I right-clicked then chose "properties", an install dialogue box came up, wanting me to install my webcam. Problem is my webcam is installed. When I clicked cancel, the install dialogue box came up again, and again, and again! <p> <p>I might try again when the full version comes out! Beta version sucks!

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• Ahrrr! its slow when you play games, even if your not. features dont work too.

  rob0289June 22, 2005

  Pros

  hey i got to admit not easy making this stuff but, its going to slow your computer down a bit.

  Cons

  alot of features didint work on mine like, the net bar when its sapose to be tracking how much of the connection is leaft doesint work. I play bejewled and thats not a very big game but it flickers or sometimes slows it down. for some funny reason it will make my computer frezze with out the game. Only once in a blue moon thou.

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• Very Handsome & Cool Product!!!!

  shakeel_jee7March 26, 2005

  Pros

  Pros: Once we install it, we're virtually switched to Windows Longhorn. It has very good feachers like Integrating different applications on it. It has very good graphics, espacially I like the Analog Clock of "Longhorn Slate".

  Cons

  Cons: Besides its good feachers, currently it has some problem of instability, but In my PC, it is working well.

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• Um, okay?

  shuaibaoMarch 1, 2005

  Pros

  It's okay....

  Cons

  It's just like the Windows Sidebar.

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• Fairly useful

  Jep4444February 27, 2005

  Pros

  I have been using this program for awhile, it's nice and provides me some nice features such as WinAMP controls and system monitor.

  Cons

  I experienced instability on version 4.8 but 4.9 has been fairly stable for me(the odd problem from time to time like it wouldn't open yesterday)

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• Almost Good Enough

  December 28, 2004

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  I installed it, but it's just too unstable for me. It crashes, won't open at Windows startup no matter how many times I configure it to, and stopped updating the weather no matter how I configured it, and every attempt at using the mp3 player failed. I uninstalled it and installed Desktop Sidebar instead. It has a few(very few)less features, but ALL of them work properly, it opens on startup, doesn't crash and plays my mp3's. It also has better looking skins available. I'll try smartbar again someday, but not until a few more upgraded versions have been released.

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• Spyware Packed

  October 25, 2004

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  This thing is a great product but filled to the gills with spyware

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