Install Active Desktop in Windows 95 / NT4
6 March 2003 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback OffActive Desktop is part of the Windows Desktop Update and was introduced with
Internet Explorer 4 (IE4). The Active Desktop delivers features like the Quick Launch bar
and the ability to dynamically order the Start Menu items. WinNT4 and Win95 doesn't come with IE4 by default,
and if one decided to be quick and install IE5 or IE6 without installing IE4 first then Active Desktop isn't installed.
There are two ways to install the Active Desktop in this situation:
Note one should make sure that the language of the Active Desktop is the same as the operating system, as mixed binaries can lead to unpredictable results.
More Info MS KB Q165695
More Info MS KB Q217344
More Info MS KB Q293907
There are two ways to install the Active Desktop in this situation:
- Uninstall IE? and install IE4 and then install IE? again
- Install the IE4 Active Desktop package on top of the existing IE?
- Download the file (Usually acquired when downloading IE?)
- Ie4shlnt.cab (WinNT4) (Change URL from EN to DA for Danish)
- Ie4shl95.cab (Win95) (Change URL from EN to DA for Danish)
- Extract the contents of the above cab-file to a directory
- Right click the now extracted Ie4shell.inf file and select install (Note a background popup might complain about a missing Wallpapr.htm press Ignore)
- Let it restart your computer
- Run The IE Repair Tool and do a repair (Note your Start Menu, SendTo might not work at this point)
- To run a command in WinNT4 press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to launch Task Manager or browse My Computer to start Winnt\System32\cmd.exe
- To run a command in Win95 press CTRL+ESC to launch Task Manager or browse My Computer to start Windows\Command.com
- If icons look garbled then check Repair incorrectly displayed icons
Note one should make sure that the language of the Active Desktop is the same as the operating system, as mixed binaries can lead to unpredictable results.
More Info MS KB Q165695
More Info MS KB Q217344
More Info MS KB Q293907
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Updated: 2 October 2008