"Active Desktop HTML File" Question

[kraut]

Running Windows XP home and every time I try to change wallpaper,
screen saver, ETC an error box comes up saying:

"Can not find Active Desktop HTML File. It is needed for your active
desktop". I usually have to click on the error warning a couple times
before it goes away. This has just started since I installed Office
2007. The changes I make to wallpaper, ETC go through but the screen
goes like blank first which it never did before.

How do I turn Active Desktop off or get rid of the warning??

TIA

 

[kraut]

Running Windows XP home and every time I try to change wallpaper,
screen saver, ETC an error box comes up saying:

"Can not find Active Desktop HTML File. It is needed for your active
desktop". I usually have to click on the error warning a couple times
before it goes away. This has just started since I installed Office
2007. The changes I make to wallpaper, ETC go through but the screen
goes like blank first which it never did before.

How do I turn Active Desktop off or get rid of the warning??

TIA

As far as I know I never enabled "Active Desktop"

TIA

 

[Jose]

Running Windows XP home and every time I try to change wallpaper,
screen saver, ETC an error box comes up saying:

"Can not find Active Desktop HTML File.  It is needed for your active
desktop".  I usually have to click on the error warning a couple times
before it goes away.  This has just started since I installed Office
2007.  The changes I make to wallpaper, ETC go through but the screen
goes like blank first which it never did before.

How do I turn Active Desktop off or get rid of the warning??

TIA

If you have not tinkered with it, something is tinkering it for you.
It could be some leftovers or traces of previously removed malicious
software.

Let's get things back to normal and then do some scans for malicious
software.

Right click the desktop, Properties, Desktop tab, Customize Desktop.
Click the Web tab.

There are two check boxes and the default is no boxes checked so
uncheck anything that is checked.

Under Web pages the default is "My Current Home Page" and should be
unchecked.

If there are any other Web pages listed and you did not add them,
delete them.

You cannot delete the My Current Home Page, but it is normally
unchecked. If it was checked, your current browser home page would be
your desktop (ugh!).

OK your way out, set your wallpaper they way you want. You may have
to do this again after the following scans:

Perform some scans for malicious software, then fix any remaining
issues:

Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:

Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

They can be uninstalled later if desired.

 

[Ben Myers]

Running Windows XP home and every time I try to change wallpaper,
screen saver, ETC an error box comes up saying:
"Can not find Active Desktop HTML File. It is needed for your active
desktop". I usually have to click on the error warning a couple times
before it goes away. This has just started since I installed Office
2007. The changes I make to wallpaper, ETC go through but the screen
goes like blank first which it never did before.
How do I turn Active Desktop off or get rid of the warning??

Right-click a blank spot on the desktop, select "Properties", "Desktop",
"Customize Desktop", "Web", and uncheck the current web page.
Click "OK", then "OK" again.

Ben

 

[kraut]

Right-click a blank spot on the desktop, select "Properties", "Desktop",
"Customize Desktop", "Web", and uncheck the current web page.
Click "OK", then "OK" again.

Ben

I think I found the problem. I did the web thing and everything was
set ayou all said.

I got thinking albout the different changes I did other then changing
wallpaper or screen saver occassionally. The only thing I did before
the problem was that my desktop icons would not stay the way I put
them so I arranged them then locked the desktop and that was when the
problem started.

So I unlocked the desktop and tryed changinging wallpaper and saver
and no problem what-so- ever for a day now.

Just before this post I relocked desktop and problems re-appeared.
Unlocked it and problems gone again.

Thanks all for the help but I think I found the problem. Looks like
locking the desktop was causing it!!