Disable Active Desktop
Operating System Windows 2000 / XP / 2003
Category Desktop
You can use the Active Desktop to make your desktop act like your own personal Web page. You can display pieces of your favorite Web sites directly on your desktop and keep them up-to-date automatically. This tweak will disable the active Desktop feature and cannot be enabled without reversing this tweak.
Steps for applying this Tweak
- Open your Registry
- Go to one of the following location
- For changes to occur for current user
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer
- For change to occur for all users
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer
- Create or Modify if exists Dword value called "NoActiveDesktop"
- Set value as 0 to disable this tweak Or 1 to Enable this tweak.
- Restart or Logout windows for setting to take effects.
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