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If you don't have at least IE 4 you don't have active desktop.
Otherwise the location to turn it off varies from version to version
but it's usually something like start/settings/folder
options/general/check off custom settings/settings and under active
desktop check use Windows classic desktop. Jes' love that user
friendliness!
If you're running 95 and don't have IE 4 installed I believe you have
to install it before you go to IE 5--there's a windows desktop/menu
upgrade that's really an upgrade to the OS but is included with IE 4
so MS can pretend IE is part of the operating system. Early versions
were quite unstable. Either way, I suggest that you a) try Tweak UI's
repair b) install the complete IE 4 with the desktop components if you
don't have it already c) upgrade to IE 5 if you already do. You can go
on using Netscape--you're just installing IE to upgrade the operating
system. Then, when you get a chance, try to switch to 98 or NT. One
word of advice: 98 is frequently flakey if installed over 95--it
really has to be installed on a newly formatted disk to work right.
You could also try reinstalling Windows 95 right after you install
Tweak UI. See if you can get it to do a repair, and if that doesn't
work, install it from scratch. (You aren't alone--it's common for 95
to suffer a catastrophic failure somewhere along the line, and even if
it doesn't, the OS gradually degrades with use.)
Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: mguess <mguess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Joshua P. Hill <joshhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Frozen icons
> Josh,
>
> I'm running Win95 so I don't think Win98 stuff will work on it. Am
using
> Netscape so I don't have IE. How do you turn OFF the active
desktop??
>
> Michael
>
> Joshua P. Hill wrote:
>
> > If you're using active desktop, turn it off. Try the repair option
in
> > IE 5 or, if you don't yet have IE 5, reinstall IE 4 and then add
IE 5.
> > No guarantee that it will work, but Internet Explorer installation
is
> > frequently a good repair technique these days. If that doesn't
work,
> > and if you can't restore your registry, and if the Tweak UI repair
> > doesn't work, try reinstalling Windows 98--the objective being to
> > replace whatever file got corrupted when you crashed. Or better
yet,
> > go to NT (with SP4, IE 5, and active desktop off), which is much
less
> > susceptible to this sort of thing.
> >
> > Microsoft has steadily improved the stability of the Windows 98/IE
> > products through successive upgrades (from abysmal to merely
> > terrible)--if you can't go to NT (which upgrades it to mediocre),
see
> > if you can get your hands on a copy of Win 98 SE release candidate
3.
> >
> > Josh
>
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