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Active Desktop is a features available since Mircrosoft Window 98, which enables a user to use their desktop as a web page where user can get content from the Internet and display it on their desktop. Users who want to view the latest news, stock quotes, comic, etc… but don’t want to open a browser each time to view the content may find this feature useful.

To enable/disable it is very simple.

For Window XP:

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Open Display Properties.
3. Click the Desktop tab.
4. Click the Customize Desktop button.
5. Click the Web tab in the Desktop Items window.

If you wish to enable the Active Desktop, check “My Current Home Page”. Add your current home page into your desktop or click New to add another web page and/or other Active Desktop features. To update the content, click the Synchronize button.

If you wish to disable Active Desktop, make sure all checkboxes in this window are un-checked.

For Window 98, ME, 2000:

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Open Display Properties.
3. Click the Web tab in the Display Properties window.

If you wish to enable the Active Desktop, check the checkbox for “Show Web content on my Active Desktop” and select the home page you wish to use as the active desktop.

If you wish to disable Active Desktop, make sure that “Show Web content on my Active Desktop” is unchecked.