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Prevent changes to “Active Desktop” settings (For Current User).

This setting removes the options from Desktop, where you can make changes to the “Active Desktop” settings.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000

Description:

The options of Active Desktop can be accessed from Display icon in Control Panel and right-click menu on Desktop.

This setting can remove options to configure “Active Desktop’. The “Web” tab, where the “Active Desktop” settings can be configured, is removed from the “Desktop Items” window. The “Desktop Items” window is called by clicking “Customize Desktop” button inside “Desktop” tab of “Control Panel > Display” system icon.

Secondly, when you right-click on Desktop and choose “Arrange Icons By” menu item, the options “Show Desktop Icons”, “Lock Web Items on Desktop” and “Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard” may be missing.

If “Active Desktop” is already enabled, you cannot customize Web contents; as a result, you cannot enable or disable “Active Desktop”.

For this, go to “Start > Run” menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a DWORD value “NoActiveDesktopChanges”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “1” which can prevent change to “Active Desktop” settings. However, if you want to get back the missing options, change the value to “0”.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
In Windows 2000, the “Web” tab can be accessed straight away inside “Display” system icon in Control Panel.

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Disable Active Desktop Changes.reg

The ".reg" can disable changes to the "Active Desktop".

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Enable Active Desktop Changes (Default).reg

The ".reg" file can enable changes to the "Active Desktop".

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

NoActiveDesktopChanges

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

The options to change the "Active Desktop" settings are missing.

The changes to the "Active Desktop" settings are allowed.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type 'regedit'.

Second, go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key and right-click in the open area to create a new DWORD value "NoActiveDesktopChanges".

Third, right-click on the "NoActiveDesktopChanges" DWORD Value and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

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