One of my students scraped me on orkut today that he had a very slow system caused by “Active Desktop” being enabled. Well in case you do not know “Active Desktop” is a feature in windows that allows the user to set a webpage as a wallpaper, as the wallpaper is a webpage you can run all most all the scripts that you can run on a website. This makes it a preferred way to target your systems. [of course this method is old and is not very popular these days. ] but if you are stuck in a situation where you are unable to disable your "Active Desktop" you can run regedit and go to "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]"
Create a new Value Named NoActiveDesktop set
Data Type to REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)" and enter a value of 1. You can now close regedit if necessary restart the computer, “Active Desktop” will be disabled. in case you need to activate it just navigate to the same place and change the value to “1”
Friday, September 18, 2009
Disabling “Active Desktop”
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