Active Desktop gone awol

Hi All

I update a user's desktop with a specific picture when they log onto a
standard Win2k3 server AD setup so that pupils have a blue background pic
and teachers have a green background.

However, one of the laptops can't display the background for the pupil
account and I get the usual white bg with loads of text on saying the Active
Desktop doesn't work.

A sort of IE scripting error message appears when I click the restore active
desktop button.

How do I correct this?

Thanks

Is IE7 installed on the problem machine?
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Laphan wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I update a user's desktop with a specific picture when they log onto a
> standard Win2k3 server AD setup so that pupils have a blue background pic
> and teachers have a green background.
>
> However, one of the laptops can't display the background for the pupil
> account and I get the usual white bg with loads of text on saying the
> Active
> Desktop doesn't work.
>
> A sort of IE scripting error message appears when I click the restore
> active
> desktop button.
>
> How do I correct this?
>
> Thanks

Hi Laphan,

This sounds like an older workstation that is still using all of the Active
Desktop technologies. Unless you have a need to pull web content into the
background, I would disable this in the GPO. Once Active Desktop is
disabled, you should be able to control the desktop with the normal desktop
GPOs.

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MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+
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Chicago, IL

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"Laphan" wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I update a user's desktop with a specific picture when they log onto a
> standard Win2k3 server AD setup so that pupils have a blue background pic
> and teachers have a green background.
>
> However, one of the laptops can't display the background for the pupil
> account and I get the usual white bg with loads of text on saying the Active
> Desktop doesn't work.
>
> A sort of IE scripting error message appears when I click the restore active
> desktop button.
>
> How do I correct this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

Yes, is this the offending article?

In fact this is probably the only laptop that has upgraded to IE7 from IE6.

Actually did a 'fix' by copying an ntuser.dat file from a working user
account and pasted this over the troublesome one. Seems to have fixed it,
but I'm sure this isn't the accepted fix.

Any ideas on how, where and what?

Thanks

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Is IE7 installed on the problem machine?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Laphan wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I update a user's desktop with a specific picture when they log onto a
> standard Win2k3 server AD setup so that pupils have a blue background pic
> and teachers have a green background.
>
> However, one of the laptops can't display the background for the pupil
> account and I get the usual white bg with loads of text on saying the
> Active
> Desktop doesn't work.
>
> A sort of IE scripting error message appears when I click the restore
> active
> desktop button.
>
> How do I correct this?
>
> Thanks