SideBar no longer opens at boot

Hi,

In the last couple of weeks my sidebar has decided to refuse to start at boot - most of the time! Sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't! If it does start I check the properties and most of the time the "start when Windows starts" is checked but often it has become unchecked. But there are occasions when it is checked, I re-boot, and it doesn't start and after manually starting the checkbox has become unchecked.

I've tried the fix from http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117192-windows-sidebar-will-not-start-vista.html but it makes no difference.

Any other methods of getting this annoyance sorted?

Vista Home Premium 64bit; AMD Phenom IIx4 945 Processor 3.00Ghz; 8.0Gb RAM

Re: Side Bar no longer opens at boot

Run this command and see if the problem is rectified, but I doubt it. I think that it will take a repair install which requires an install DVD
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html
Run several times if errors are found.