Re: Enable/disable "Show desktop icon"

Sean,
could you pls run the script I sent to in a XP SP2 machine and see the
result? I used it in all my office machines and it did not work. Whatever is
the cause, Active Desktop or not (I am not using any feature of the active
desktop but I cannot remove from the XPe image), it seems to me something
changed in XP/XPe that prevents the script from working!!!
Could you pls help me?
Many thanks.
Andrea

"Sean Liming (eMVP)" wrote:


Active Desktop - soundsl like IE 4 stuff - do you mean a desktop with a
webpage enabled? If so the registery key still works, but the web access is
also hidden.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit



"Andrea" <beppegenco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some more info: it seems the problem is for the "Active Desktop". The
script
does not work because the registry value does not take any effect on it.
Could you please suggest me a way out this problem??


"Sean Liming (eMVP)" wrote:


The registry key is correct. Enable = 0 and Disable = 1. You have to log
out
of the account and log back in for the change to take effect.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit


"Andrea" <beppegenco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
a customer of mine is more interested in deskop icon than my 100MB,
Real-Time application and wants to enable "show desktop icon" flag
programmatically.
I checked in the net and found to set in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
a value "NoDesktop" and then reboot. I tried it but it does not work
neither
in XPE nor in my XP SP2 machine. Something must be changed. I checked
with
sysinternals'Regmon but it seems that Windows does not change any value
when
I enable the feature via UI. Can anyone help me?
Thanks a lot.
Andrea







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