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Opening My Computer brings up Explorer
Name: Sun W. Kim Date: December 26, 1999 at 21:11:59 Pacific
Comment:
I am running Win98 SE with IE5, Active Desktop on.
Whenever I double-click My Computer, Explorer loads and displays the C drive. Normally, it would show the contents of My Computer (A: C: D: Printers etc.), but now it doesn't. Also, when I go to FTP sites through IE5 and double-click on an FTP site, it also takes makes to Explorer.
Name: ergmiester Date: December 26, 1999 at 22:00:01 Pacific
Reply:
Review your active desktop settings or better yet disable it if you dont need it. Major source af confusion in win98.
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Response Number 2
Name: John Stitch Date: December 28, 1999 at 11:38:03 Pacific
Reply:
In my humble opinion the active desktop should be hung up by it's gonads and flayed to within an inch of it's life; it serves no useful purpose except to slow up the display driver. It's about as much use as Bill Gates as a Playboy centrefold.
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Response Number 3
Name: rg Date: December 28, 1999 at 14:59:19 Pacific
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