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View Thumbnails, kills Web style folder option.
I would have posted in Active Desktop, but that groups seems to be dead.
(Earlier, I had a problem when un/re-installing Office2000, I lost my graphics associations. But per the KBs I fixed that.) Here's the problem. It started after a power failure to my system. When things came back up, I got the white desktop background, stating an error had occurred and did I want to restore my actuve desktop. I selected yes. I then set the Active Desktop to "View as Web page." Things seem to be fine: In mousing over documents, graphics, etc., I got on the left, a preview, as expected. The folder and it's contents responded as if they were web pages. But, when I set up a folder for "thumbnail" view, then switched my "views" from icon/detail, what have you, I got the "thumbnails," but the desktop reverted back to Classic Windows. I lost my preview and all web functions for the folder. Now, I can have one or the other: View as a Web page and cannot activate "thumbnails" as one of the view choices; or I can stay with Classic Windows and have thumbnails, but no web attributes on the desktop--previews, etc. It wasn't like that before the power-outage. I could have the folder option set as a web page and the view set to thumbnail or whatever I wanted. I ran the registry checks in the KB216840, to determine if Active Desktop is installed. Not one of the registry entries on my system matched what is supposed to be there. Every value is close, but different. How do I fix this? to have Active desktop set my folders to act as web pages and under "views" be able to set that to "thumbnails" without the system reverting to Classic Windows? It's only when I move the Views to Thumbnails does this happenn. All other "views" work fine. Observation: when I try to "Customize" the Folder Options through: View|Folder|General|Custom, based on setting you choose| and then tick the Active Desktop section to "use windows classic desktop," returninng to the General page has the radio button in "Custom." (where it should be) If I check instead, "Enable all web-based content on my desktop," returning to the General Folder options shows the radio buton has reset to "Web style," and I have lost all my customizations. (it should have stayed on "custom...") I suppose these are interelatted problems? Any ideas for fixes? Thanks, Bob T |
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I believe you are mistaken. If you set a folder to Thumbnail view, it cannot be set
to Web Page view. The Preview Pane on the left in Web view is not present when you set a folder to Thumbnail view....they are mutually exclusive. It has always been that way. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "sunslight" wrote in message news I would have posted in Active Desktop, but that groups seems to be dead. (Earlier, I had a problem when un/re-installing Office2000, I lost my graphics associations. But per the KBs I fixed that.) Here's the problem. It started after a power failure to my system. When things came back up, I got the white desktop background, stating an error had occurred and did I want to restore my actuve desktop. I selected yes. I then set the Active Desktop to "View as Web page." Things seem to be fine: In mousing over documents, graphics, etc., I got on the left, a preview, as expected. The folder and it's contents responded as if they were web pages. But, when I set up a folder for "thumbnail" view, then switched my "views" from icon/detail, what have you, I got the "thumbnails," but the desktop reverted back to Classic Windows. I lost my preview and all web functions for the folder. Now, I can have one or the other: View as a Web page and cannot activate "thumbnails" as one of the view choices; or I can stay with Classic Windows and have thumbnails, but no web attributes on the desktop--previews, etc. It wasn't like that before the power-outage. I could have the folder option set as a web page and the view set to thumbnail or whatever I wanted. I ran the registry checks in the KB216840, to determine if Active Desktop is installed. Not one of the registry entries on my system matched what is supposed to be there. Every value is close, but different. How do I fix this? to have Active desktop set my folders to act as web pages and under "views" be able to set that to "thumbnails" without the system reverting to Classic Windows? It's only when I move the Views to Thumbnails does this happenn. All other "views" work fine. Observation: when I try to "Customize" the Folder Options through: View|Folder|General|Custom, based on setting you choose| and then tick the Active Desktop section to "use windows classic desktop," returninng to the General page has the radio button in "Custom." (where it should be) If I check instead, "Enable all web-based content on my desktop," returning to the General Folder options shows the radio buton has reset to "Web style," and I have lost all my customizations. (it should have stayed on "custom...") I suppose these are interelatted problems? Any ideas for fixes? Thanks, Bob T |
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That is the way that I understand it as well, Glen. Thank you for pointing
that out to all of us. "glee" wrote: I believe you are mistaken. If you set a folder to Thumbnail view, it cannot be set to Web Page view. The Preview Pane on the left in Web view is not present when you set a folder to Thumbnail view....they are mutually exclusive. It has always been that way. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "sunslight" wrote in message news I would have posted in Active Desktop, but that groups seems to be dead. (Earlier, I had a problem when un/re-installing Office2000, I lost my graphics associations. But per the KBs I fixed that.) Here's the problem. It started after a power failure to my system. When things came back up, I got the white desktop background, stating an error had occurred and did I want to restore my actuve desktop. I selected yes. I then set the Active Desktop to "View as Web page." Things seem to be fine: In mousing over documents, graphics, etc., I got on the left, a preview, as expected. The folder and it's contents responded as if they were web pages. But, when I set up a folder for "thumbnail" view, then switched my "views" from icon/detail, what have you, I got the "thumbnails," but the desktop reverted back to Classic Windows. I lost my preview and all web functions for the folder. Now, I can have one or the other: View as a Web page and cannot activate "thumbnails" as one of the view choices; or I can stay with Classic Windows and have thumbnails, but no web attributes on the desktop--previews, etc. It wasn't like that before the power-outage. I could have the folder option set as a web page and the view set to thumbnail or whatever I wanted. I ran the registry checks in the KB216840, to determine if Active Desktop is installed. Not one of the registry entries on my system matched what is supposed to be there. Every value is close, but different. How do I fix this? to have Active desktop set my folders to act as web pages and under "views" be able to set that to "thumbnails" without the system reverting to Classic Windows? It's only when I move the Views to Thumbnails does this happenn. All other "views" work fine. Observation: when I try to "Customize" the Folder Options through: View|Folder|General|Custom, based on setting you choose| and then tick the Active Desktop section to "use windows classic desktop," returninng to the General page has the radio button in "Custom." (where it should be) If I check instead, "Enable all web-based content on my desktop," returning to the General Folder options shows the radio buton has reset to "Web style," and I have lost all my customizations. (it should have stayed on "custom...") I suppose these are interelatted problems? Any ideas for fixes? Thanks, Bob T |
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Thank you.
I guess I was luciky that it was messed up and working like it had been. I had never seen it revert to the Windows Classic on the Thumbnail view. I'll accept that anamoly as an MS "added feature" I had for a while. I am bothered a bit though that ever reg entry key value that the KB article had me check, that showed Active desktop was working correctly or even on the system was not as the KB said they should be. Even one entire Key is missing. Maybe I'll make a backup, then add/change the values to what the KB says they are supposed to be. --My system now crashes when I try to shut it down or will freeze at random. I just found that out. --It took several tries to get the white warning screen that the Active Desktop was lost, after the power failure, before it would switch to back to normal. Maybe things are still scrambled? Thank you for the help. Bob "Dan" wrote: That is the way that I understand it as well, Glen. Thank you for pointing that out to all of us. "glee" wrote: I believe you are mistaken. If you set a folder to Thumbnail view, it cannot be set to Web Page view. The Preview Pane on the left in Web view is not present when you set a folder to Thumbnail view....they are mutually exclusive. It has always been that way. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "sunslight" wrote in message news I would have posted in Active Desktop, but that groups seems to be dead. (Earlier, I had a problem when un/re-installing Office2000, I lost my graphics associations. But per the KBs I fixed that.) Here's the problem. It started after a power failure to my system. When things came back up, I got the white desktop background, stating an error had occurred and did I want to restore my actuve desktop. I selected yes. I then set the Active Desktop to "View as Web page." Things seem to be fine: In mousing over documents, graphics, etc., I got on the left, a preview, as expected. The folder and it's contents responded as if they were web pages. But, when I set up a folder for "thumbnail" view, then switched my "views" from icon/detail, what have you, I got the "thumbnails," but the desktop reverted back to Classic Windows. I lost my preview and all web functions for the folder. Now, I can have one or the other: View as a Web page and cannot activate "thumbnails" as one of the view choices; or I can stay with Classic Windows and have thumbnails, but no web attributes on the desktop--previews, etc. It wasn't like that before the power-outage. I could have the folder option set as a web page and the view set to thumbnail or whatever I wanted. I ran the registry checks in the KB216840, to determine if Active Desktop is installed. Not one of the registry entries on my system matched what is supposed to be there. Every value is close, but different. How do I fix this? to have Active desktop set my folders to act as web pages and under "views" be able to set that to "thumbnails" without the system reverting to Classic Windows? It's only when I move the Views to Thumbnails does this happenn. All other "views" work fine. Observation: when I try to "Customize" the Folder Options through: View|Folder|General|Custom, based on setting you choose| and then tick the Active Desktop section to "use windows classic desktop," returninng to the General page has the radio button in "Custom." (where it should be) If I check instead, "Enable all web-based content on my desktop," returning to the General Folder options shows the radio buton has reset to "Web style," and I have lost all my customizations. (it should have stayed on "custom...") I suppose these are interelatted problems? Any ideas for fixes? Thanks, Bob T |
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The KB article you refer to --
How to Determine if Active Desktop Is Installed: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216840 first of all states that it applies to IE5.0, IE4.x, (which includes Win95 & NT4 with one of those browsers installed) and Win98 First Edition. Are you using Win98 First Edition, or Win98SE? I assume you are referring to the ShellState key as being different on your system, as it is here on my Win98SE system. The value shown in the KB article is the default value, and it can be different on various systems based on other changes made. You can change it to the default setting for AD as shown in the KB article....no reboot should be needed afterwards. The usual caveats about backing up the registry apply(StartRunscanregw). Are there any other keys shown there that you find different? -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "sunslight" wrote in message news Thank you. I guess I was luciky that it was messed up and working like it had been. I had never seen it revert to the Windows Classic on the Thumbnail view. I'll accept that anamoly as an MS "added feature" I had for a while. I am bothered a bit though that ever reg entry key value that the KB article had me check, that showed Active desktop was working correctly or even on the system was not as the KB said they should be. Even one entire Key is missing. Maybe I'll make a backup, then add/change the values to what the KB says they are supposed to be. --My system now crashes when I try to shut it down or will freeze at random. I just found that out. --It took several tries to get the white warning screen that the Active Desktop was lost, after the power failure, before it would switch to back to normal. Maybe things are still scrambled? Thank you for the help. Bob "Dan" wrote: That is the way that I understand it as well, Glen. Thank you for pointing that out to all of us. "glee" wrote: I believe you are mistaken. If you set a folder to Thumbnail view, it cannot be set to Web Page view. The Preview Pane on the left in Web view is not present when you set a folder to Thumbnail view....they are mutually exclusive. It has always been that way. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/communities...t/default.mspx "sunslight" wrote in message news I would have posted in Active Desktop, but that groups seems to be dead. (Earlier, I had a problem when un/re-installing Office2000, I lost my graphics associations. But per the KBs I fixed that.) Here's the problem. It started after a power failure to my system. When things came back up, I got the white desktop background, stating an error had occurred and did I want to restore my actuve desktop. I selected yes. I then set the Active Desktop to "View as Web page." Things seem to be fine: In mousing over documents, graphics, etc., I got on the left, a preview, as expected. The folder and it's contents responded as if they were web pages. But, when I set up a folder for "thumbnail" view, then switched my "views" from icon/detail, what have you, I got the "thumbnails," but the desktop reverted back to Classic Windows. I lost my preview and all web functions for the folder. Now, I can have one or the other: View as a Web page and cannot activate "thumbnails" as one of the view choices; or I can stay with Classic Windows and have thumbnails, but no web attributes on the desktop--previews, etc. It wasn't like that before the power-outage. I could have the folder option set as a web page and the view set to thumbnail or whatever I wanted. I ran the registry checks in the KB216840, to determine if Active Desktop is installed. Not one of the registry entries on my system matched what is supposed to be there. Every value is close, but different. How do I fix this? to have Active desktop set my folders to act as web pages and under "views" be able to set that to "thumbnails" without the system reverting to Classic Windows? It's only when I move the Views to Thumbnails does this happenn. All other "views" work fine. Observation: when I try to "Customize" the Folder Options through: View|Folder|General|Custom, based on setting you choose| and then tick the Active Desktop section to "use windows classic desktop," returninng to the General page has the radio button in "Custom." (where it should be) If I check instead, "Enable all web-based content on my desktop," returning to the General Folder options shows the radio buton has reset to "Web style," and I have lost all my customizations. (it should have stayed on "custom...") I suppose these are interelatted problems? Any ideas for fixes? Thanks, Bob T |
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