Hopefully this'll be a quick question/answer, and not a bashfest on Active Desktop. I'm graphically inclined as well as computer literate and just need suggestions on a fluke: As much as I prefer wallpaper versus A.D., I prefer multiple easily modifiable images versus one single image that's a pain to modify, and lower resolution. After removing an unwanted "Webcrawler Toolbar" for IE, in trying to enable my Active Desktop, I can right click the desktop, enable A.D., Show Web Content, and even add items, all without fail. Problem: after wizarding through adding a new desktop item, *nothing* actually appears on the desktop. If I browse to the Web tab of the Display Properties, it shows silhouettes of items on a mock desktop, as if they're enabled, and selected for display, but they're not actually on the desktop. FYI- they're all local images on a running HDD except for J-Track (NASA).

Active Desktop sucks, you shouldn't be using it. Ok just kidding, go to start, run and type in SFC to run the system file checker. Perhaps the Webcrawler toolbar hosed up some system files.

not that easy to run sfc! . insert windows xp system disk in cdromgo to run then type cmd ... type sfc in the comand prompt. (you must have your windows disk in the cdrom) best of luck Frank :

oops, Frank is right, I forgot going to the command prompt first.

actually the command is sfc /scannow best of luck Frank :