I just reset my computer to factory shipped conditions because it was not working. But now anytime i try to do anything ts nohe message c:Documents and setting sowner desktop is not available or can not find active desktop keeps popping up and i have no idea how to fix it because i cant even load in my spyware programs.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to open my active desktop, but I get a message that says IE cannot locate my active desktop html file. I need to find out how to fix this problem.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have XP media edition and I was putting a jpg file on my desktop last week when it said something about active desktop. I was in a hurry so I clicked it and since then my desktop icons have dark blue labels, indicating that it is in active desktop mode, I guess.I don't like it but I can't find any way to get out of it and get back to normal. There is nothing in the help files about it or online as far as I can see.I even tried that program that reverts you to a previous day but that didn't work either.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I click Display Desktop Customize I don't have a "Web" tab. I can't figure why I can't get an active desktop.I'm on Windows XP SP2 and IE 6. Any ideas?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running Win2kPro.Quite often when I reboot, everything loads fine with the cursor working but I cannot access anything including the start button. I try ctr/alt/delete and shut down running programs but still no help.I cold reboot a couple of times and finally get the white screen saying to restore active desktop - I do this and every thing is back to normal. That is the reason I think it may have something to do with active desktop but I am not sure.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSomehow or other, I've lost the ability to show web content on my xp pro desktop. In particular, I'd like to show some photos, but the desktop->properties->desktop->custom->web list has no effect at all.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhere are the settings for active desktop? I need to turn mine off.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI keep getting a message on my desktop asking me if I want to Restore my active Desktop, it comes up every couple of days.I have run Ad-Aware, Spybot and Trend Micro Anti Spyware Pro and removed whatever was found but still it comes up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've encouterd this problem for quite a few times now, and I have the solution, but I was wondering if anyone has an idea if what might cause this.Namely, Active Desktop crashes and when I click the "Restore Active Desktop" button, an error message appears, stating a problem with Internet Explorer Script Error is occuring. Then I do some registry editing, changing an value of a key to zero(HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopSafeModeComponents Change the value of DeskHtmlVersion is that key, to be more specific) and the problem is solved.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedXP PRO Problem Boots up to white desktop, then i have option to "RESTORE MY ACTIVE DESKTOP" Also when i click on start-all programs all i get is a grey area. I have tried restore but it does not work, any ideas ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to delete things that have been placed on the Active Desktop. I got a zip icon on my desktop that I cannot delete or right click on, but I can drag it though but it goes underneath the recycle bin. How can I delete it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen closing a an active box on my desktop, it is choppy and seems to close in about 4 stages..like a curtain going down very slowly. Also, if I move an active box on my desktop, it leaves a trail of maybe 15-20 box images trailing behind it for a few seconds. Never had this before. But..only if at my desktop screen. If I have a bunch of windows/boxes open, boxes close quickly and if moved leave no 'trail' behind them
View 4 Replies View RelatedTo crete active desktop items that will operate as if they were an IE window, so that when you click a button or link it goes to the page in the desktop item without opening a new window but for the items I create the links always open a new IE window.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs Active Desktop Controls Greyed Out Ie Set As Background All Not An Option Also In Display Options Background Greyed Out So I Cannot Reset Or Restore Active Desktop Although At Boot Up My Previous Choice Of Desktop Background Shows Until The Icons Are Established Then The Screen Shows Active Desktop Has Been Turned Off Doesnt Support Do You Want To Run On This Page Tried Afew Thing Including Removing Security Programmesr
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow does one drag-and-drop a web page to Windows XP Active Desktop? I accidentally did it one day and was delighted with the results, but I can't repeat it and can't for the life of me find any mention online. The only way I can now accomplish the same result--displaying a web page in a window on my desktop, not just a link to a web page--is this sequence: Start | Control Panel | Display | Desktop | Customize Desktop... | Web | New.
I use Firefox almost all the time, so I believe I was using Firefox when the "happy accident" occurred, but I might have been using Internet Explorer.
Can the active desktop be set to a different DPI than IE8.IE8 uses the font DPI setting of the Windows XP operating system.If you change the font DPI from its standard setting of 96 DPI normal to 120 DPI large, IE8 will render the active desktop with the same change, (since the active desktop is a web page) this will in turn change the desktop image (photo), enlarging it so that it no longer fits on to the monitor correctly, if you have 2 monitors the primary windows monitor image will be enlarged to part of the second monitor and part of the image on the second monitor will be missing. IE8 has a setting to change the DPI back to 96 DPI in the compatibility mode but the desktop image is not displayed in the IE8 browser window so it there is no setting to make the desktop image, compatible or 96 DPI. Changing the font size to large under the Appearance tab, instead of the Settings Advanced tab, does not help the small fonts in the active window. If you are using a laptop computer with 1920x1200 Screen resolution this makes the fonts in the active window painfully small. My question is: Is there some way to use IE8 with 120 DPI fonts and get the active desktop image set back to its original size?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen you choose a wallpaper using the standard method (selecting a background on the desktop tab, in the properties window), Windows converts this image to a huge .bmp file (even if you selected a .jpg). Then instead of having a nice 220K wallpaper, you get a 3,15MB wallpaper. To get rid of this, try using active desktop's web capabilities, like this:1. Right click on your desktop and select "properties", then select the "desktop" tab.2. Click on "Customize Desktop".3. Select the "Web" tab and click on "New..."4. Browse for your favorite image and click OK when you are done.5. Make sure "Lock desktop items" is uncheck.6. Click OK, and OK again.7. Now your image is like another window. Drag it to where you want and then right clik over it.8. Select "arrange icons by" and the check "Lock Web Items on Desktop".9. That's it. Now you have a "low memory usage wallpaper".With this you can make interesting things, like using various small wallpapers, or even animated ones!! (you can select an animated .gif too!!). Simply select various images, and when you click OK, drag all them to its right location, and lock the content again.PS: If you want to check the huge wallpaper windows makes, select a wallpaper the standard way, then browse to "C:Documents and SettingsUSER PROFILELocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoft" (where USER PROFILE, is the profile you're using, i.e. Administrator). There should be a file called Wallpaper.bmp, open it and you'll see your cureent wallpaper.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi don't know how but no matter what i try and change my desktop is automatically what my home page is. my desktop is an active web page. it is quite annoying and frustrating because i keep thinking I'm online but my icons are over the top so i can barely read what is there. if anyone has had this problem or knows what to do please let me know. it was just completely cleared of malware and this phenomena happened during the clean up process.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI try to open any folder from the desktop, or explorer(right click start button), or my documents, they don't open, but program shortcuts seem to work. Once inside a program I can navigate to and open folders I couldn't do previousy on desktop. It seems just an error when on the desktop itself.
My wallpaper vanishes and the active desktop recovery screen appears telling me to restore the desktop after somekind of windows error.
I have 3 PC's. I would like to connect to PC1 remotely from PC2 and 3, but there is a problem that I can't figure out. If PC2 is connected (to PC1) and I try to connect with PC3, I will kick off PC2 and connect. I don't wont this. How can I check if there is an active session on PC1 so that anyone who tries to connect first can see that there is another user connected?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to set a mandatory wallpaper for a user account with many group
policy restrictions. Although I have enabled both "active desktop wallpaper"
and "enable active desktop" the wallpaper doesn't appear. I have successfully set the wallpaper for another user with fewer restrictions. The restricted account does have file rights to the wallpaper file. One of the
group policy settings must be causing a conflict but which one?
When using internet explorer from time to time when i open or close a web page my active desktop and taskbar disappear and the screen goes black,then it gradually starts to reload fully again.Can anyone tell me if they have experienced the same problem,and if so,what is the cause of it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have problem in my personal computer,i have installed fresh Operating System XP and was running fine.But i was surprise when in login with any user account i cannot find desktop nor taskbar.Searched in google for help but it doesn't help.Looking for your valuable support.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm currently trying to transition from XP to 7, and I want to keep the same image, but I saved it from a website, (right click: use as background), and can't find where it was stored. This would be a problem, but the site went down, and i've tried to find it for hours.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhere i can find some good desktop themes for windows xp? Im picky seeing how there are only 3 colors (green,silver, and blue) that windows lets you choose. I've tried googling but i could only find ones where you had to pay.. So does anybody know any good FREE ones?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy desktop cannot boot up. I tried to reinstall windows XP.My BIOS (setup) can recognize the hard drive. but when I use OS CD reinstall XP, after loading files, chose continue install XP, I got error message, cannot find hard drive. the only option is F3 to quit installation. and my hard drive had click sound now..I doubt hard drive had some problem. I had did chkdsk from recovery console, but only 52% complete, chkdsk utility exit with "some part cannot recovered" message. why BIOS can see hard drive, but installation software cannot
find hard drive...
I just installed IE7 over IE6, but I cannot seem to find IE listed in Add/Remove Programs or in the Start Programs menu. How can I find it and get the shortcut icon on the desktop? Also, I need the shortcut for WinXP 'shutdown'.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have XP Home Edition. My problem is that when I try to log into an account (any account) I see the desktop icons, task bar, start button for a second and then suddenly they disappear and I am left with the background. I can not bring up task manager (cntrl+alt+delete) or anything else. I have tried a few things:
1. Ran spyware be gone
2. Ran adaware (got a 'cannot find shell.dll' error after doing this)
3. Tried to using selective startup and disabling startup items (when I reboot it turns it back on)
4. Tried creating a new user account --- problem still occurs.
5. Finally tried a reinstall of XP. Significant to note that during this installation I get an error related to explorer.exe.
The first time I tried to reinstall it aborted the installation. I ran a repair on the programs (from disk that came from Dell with my pc). I then tried the reinstall again....I got further this time but still when it was at the point of installing explorer it through another error and said that the program was not installed.I do not know what to do next!
My computer asks for a password that i don't remember using before start up. Won't let me get to start up screen. How can i fix this?
View 1 Replies View Relatedrecently we had power failure and when I turned my computer back on, my bios came up.I tryed to exit out but some how disconnected or turned off my second hard drive and can not get it to go in the active state again, how do I check for the missing letter E that the drive is on orfind access to this drive
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