Active Desktop gone awol

[Guest Laphan]

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

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Active Desktop gone awol

 

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

[Guest Ryan Hanisco]

RE: Active Desktop gone awol

 

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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Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

http://www.techsterity.com

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

>

>

>

[Guest Laphan]

Re: Active Desktop gone awol

 

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

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message

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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