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by axle_jr

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I was just wondering if there is a way to activate the active desktop in Win XP,

please help

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by saihib

When you right-click a blank area on the desktop on a computer that runs Windows XP Personal or Professional, the shortcut menu does not display the Active Desktop command.
This is because the command has been removed from Windows XP Personal and Windows XP Professional, due to the fact that the Active Desktop feature is always turned on.

by axle_jr

i tried to run a program, and it said need to enable active desktop, ?? Win XP, and your saying theres no way i can activate it or see if its running ??

by saihib

I'm not saying anything. The above came straight from Microsoft's Knowledge Base Article Q290247. It's probably your program that has a compatability problem. There is a way to turn off Active Desktop using group polices in XP Pro, but not XP Home. It's in gpedit.msc

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