Saturday, April 23, 2011

Active Desktop Recovery Error

In Windows XP the Active desktop recovery error is a common as well as an annoying one.


This mostly occurs when the Internet Explorer doesnt gets closed safely. To recover this error, please follow the below steps.

- Take a notepad
- Copy and paste the below contents to this notepad and save with a VBS extension.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components"
strValue = "0"
ValueName = "DeskHtmlVersion"
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, strValue

- Just double click on the VB Script file and refresh the desktop.
- The Desktop error must b solved now. If not reaolved, please restart the machine.