http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2008/04/18/useful-script-number-3-turning-the-windows-vista-sidebar-on-and-off.aspxOne of the things that you may want to do during a build or deployment process is turn off the Windows Vista sidebar for the period of the process and then turn it back on again at the end. This can be for a number of reasons including that you don'ten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2008/04/18/useful-script-number-3-turning-the-windows-vista-sidebar-on-and-off.aspx#3062233Wed, 28 May 2008 19:30:29 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3062233Jeromy<p>I think that CS3 causes the same problems with the sidebar. &nbsp;I don't know for sure, but I used a little simpler tact to closing my sidebar during my CS3 install. &nbsp;I just used &quot;taskkill /F /IM sidebar.exe /T&quot;. &nbsp;:) &nbsp;Of course the sidebar comes back on the next reboot, but I never would have been able to write that script like ya'll did, so I just did what I could think ok.</p>