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The process Desktop Sidebar or WindowsX SideBar or Windows Sidebar belongs to the software prjDeskBar or sidebar.exe or Microsoft® Windows® Operating System by Idea or Lee Matthew Chantrey or Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com).
Description: sidebar.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows XP are 1196032 bytes (42% of all occurrence), 524288 bytes, 1253376 bytes, 1232896 bytes, 6083072 bytes, 1554432 bytes, 1233920 bytes, 1232384 bytes, 1230848 bytes.The program has a visible window. File sidebar.exe is a Microsoft signed file. The application starts upon Windows startup (see Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders). Therefore the technical security rating is 13% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
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If sidebar.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows then the security rating is 41% dangerous. File size is 278528 bytes (33% of all occurrence), 688128 bytes, 122880 bytes. The application starts upon Windows startup (see Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders). sidebar.exe is not a Windows system file. External information from Paul Collins:- "Sidebar" definitely not required. Searchcentrix hijacker
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