Active Desktop: web items don't appear

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

[[You must be connected to the Internet to add active Web content to your
desktop.]]

The Active Desktop Wallpaper May Not Be Displayed When You Use Gpedit.msc
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;297846

Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency or the
drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;305117

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In news:uF9rd.5907$4P2.395335@phobos.telenet-ops.be,
Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm> hunted and pecked:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to enable Active Desktop and add some web items. Enabling
> Active Desktop is easy enough; when I enable it, the labels of my
> desktop icons appear with a colored background instead of transparent.
>
> But whatever web items I add and check, none of them are visible on
> the desktop. I searched the MS knowledge base, but to no avail.
>
> Any idea? Most Google results with similar problems report that 'Lock
> items on desktop' and similar menu items are gone, but that's not the
> case here. Everything looks normal, except the web items themselves.
>
> --
> "Codito ergo sum"
> Roel Schroeven

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?)

I can't find much on this.

Advanced Windows XP User Features
Active Desktop: A View of the Internet
http://www.informit.com/articles/a [...] 4&seqNum=7

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In news:cZfrd.6043$b63.417915@phobos.telenet-ops.be,
Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm> hunted and pecked:
> Wesley Vogel wrote:
>> [[You must be connected to the Internet to add active Web content to
>> your desktop.]]
>
> I'm almost always connected, so that's no problem.
>
>> The Active Desktop Wallpaper May Not Be Displayed When You Use
>> Gpedit.msc
>> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;297846
>
> I set it to 'Enabled' using gpedit, but then (1) the web items still
> don't appear and (2) Active Desktop is always active, even when no web
> items are checked. That doesn't seem to be the solution, so I set it
> back to 'Not configured'. I can see it would be a problem if you set
> it to 'Disabled', of course.
>
>> Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background
>> transparency or the drop shadow effect in Windows Server 2003 and
>> Windows XP
>> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;305117
>
> That just describes that background transparency and drop shadow
> effect are disabled when active desktop is active. In my case, both
> are disabled if I check one or more web items; that's why I presume
> that active desktop is active, even though no web items show on the
> desktop.
>
> Thanks for helping anyway!
>
> --
> "Codito ergo sum"
> Roel Schroeven