Re: A question on Active Desktop


Mike Chamberlain wrote:
Hi there.

In WinXP, I need to progrmatically change the web page the user sees as
their active desktop. I can change the url in the registry key to the -
this is no problem - but obviously the desktop does not automatically
change to reflect the new setting.

Does anyone know how to programatically cause the Active Desktop to
re-read its settings from the registry and update the displayed page?

Can this even be done?

Any help much appreciated.

Mike

Can you change the contents of the page without changing the URL?

.

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