I'm trying to get Active Desktop working on Windows 2000 Professional SP2, IE6. Everything seems to be configured correctly with everything enabled, and the page I've selected is synchronizing on time. Yet, nothing appears on the desktop. I'm at a loss. Any ideas?
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Cannot get Active Desktop to work
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SAMUELBURG
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Hi,
You have done a big error installing IE 6 on W2K, because IE 6 use some DLL with the same name but with different version, a new "FONCTIONNALITY" of Win XP (i.e. bug fixing like pigs do), not inplement for W2K, so when you activate "Active Desktop" witch use part of IE fonctionality, if you have IE 6 instaled you go straigt away in trouble ...
The only REAL solution is to downgrade from IE 6 to IE 5.5 (and maybe upgrade from W2K SP2 to SP3) ... but now the problem is that "downgrading" is NOT a Krosoft "FONCTIONNALITY", not enouth comercial, so you will probably need to kill your W2K SP2 IE6 install and make a new one with W2K-SP3-IE5.5
Samuel
You have done a big error installing IE 6 on W2K, because IE 6 use some DLL with the same name but with different version, a new "FONCTIONNALITY" of Win XP (i.e. bug fixing like pigs do), not inplement for W2K, so when you activate "Active Desktop" witch use part of IE fonctionality, if you have IE 6 instaled you go straigt away in trouble ...
The only REAL solution is to downgrade from IE 6 to IE 5.5 (and maybe upgrade from W2K SP2 to SP3) ... but now the problem is that "downgrading" is NOT a Krosoft "FONCTIONNALITY", not enouth comercial, so you will probably need to kill your W2K SP2 IE6 install and make a new one with W2K-SP3-IE5.5
Samuel
Samuel,
Perhaps you could point to a website further detailing this problem you're talking about?
jontvr - I'm running W2K SP3, IE 6, all current hotfixes, and my Active Desktop works just fine. Do you have the Show Web content on my Active Desktop checked, as well as a page selected below that (Desktop Properties/Web)?
Perhaps you could point to a website further detailing this problem you're talking about?
jontvr - I'm running W2K SP3, IE 6, all current hotfixes, and my Active Desktop works just fine. Do you have the Show Web content on my Active Desktop checked, as well as a page selected below that (Desktop Properties/Web)?
SAMUELBURG
Programmer
I don't have lots of time today but I will give you more detail soon about the new "DLL Functionnality with IE6" and with link betwen "IE and Active Desktop"
See you later
Samuel
See you later
Samuel
jontvr,
I'm running Win2K build 2195 with SP3, some pre-SP4 hotfixes
and IE6 with no problems. Under the web tab,is the box for my current home page checked? Just a thought. You might want to consider installing SP3. Let the installer perform a backup of your system files. If SP3 does not solve the problem, you can then uninstall the service pack. Critical updates are important. Stay with them.
Hope this helps,
Greg
I'm running Win2K build 2195 with SP3, some pre-SP4 hotfixes
and IE6 with no problems. Under the web tab,is the box for my current home page checked? Just a thought. You might want to consider installing SP3. Let the installer perform a backup of your system files. If SP3 does not solve the problem, you can then uninstall the service pack. Critical updates are important. Stay with them.
Hope this helps,
Greg
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