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Fix Windows 7 Sidebar with UAC Off issue

Gizmodo found this 1/29/2009 on ditii.com

As many of you undoubtedly know already, in Windows 7 Beta 1 , disabling UAC also causes the gadgets to stop working. The reason for this is that Microsoft made the assumption that the sidebar process would never be run in an elevated state.  So when you try to start it with UAC ...

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