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Old September 26th 04, 11:06 PM
taylor
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Default Active display turned off

I have a sony laptop with windows me. I was attempting to
copy some files on to a jump drive. In the process my
acitve display turned off. now my desk top is like I
have only one piece of the picture. There is a message
window that says my active display has been turned off.
How do I turn it on?
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Old September 26th 04, 11:23 PM
Mike M
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To enable Active Desktop, right click on your desktop, select Active
Desktop and then click Show Web Content. If you have no Active desktop
entry then download and install TweakUI (see below) which will add a new
applet to the Control Panel. Open TweakUI and click the IE tab and make
sure that both "Allow Active Desktop to be turned on/off" and "Allow
changes to Active Desktop" are checked.

If you don't have TweakUI the latest version of TweakUI for Win Me (1.33)
can be obtained from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstati.../nttweakui.asp

Download to a folder with a short name (e.g. C:\Tweak), run to extract
components, right click on tweakui.inf and then install, close the help
window that comes up to allow install to finish. C:\Tweak can now be
deleted and TweakUI accessed via the Control Panel.

Just a few words of caution though if you are new to using TweakUI on Win
Me.
a) Do not change the first icon (My Documents) on the Desktop tab.
Doing this causes a number of script errors in Special Folders when using
either WebView or Active desktop.
b) Do not uncheck "Search Results" on the Desktop tab.
Doing this disables the Search in Explorer.
c) Do not hide the TweakUI icon on the Control Panel tab.
d) Do not uncheck "Show Control Panel on Start Menu" on the IE tab.
Doing this will prevent you from accessing the Control Panel including
TweakUI.
e) Do not uncheck "Shell Enhancements" on the IE tab.
This causes quite a few unexpected "problems".
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004]



taylor wrote:

I have a sony laptop with windows me. I was attempting to
copy some files on to a jump drive. In the process my
acitve display turned off. now my desk top is like I
have only one piece of the picture. There is a message
window that says my active display has been turned off.
How do I turn it on?


 




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