Windows XP will not restore my Active Desktop. Gives an error running scripts on this page.

Anonymous
2009-10-15T01:14:59+00:00

XP will not restore active desktop

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Anonymous
2009-10-20T12:41:18+00:00

Hello rghaynes_710, welcome.

I would attempt to delete and recreate the active desktop. If that does not work, perhaps the content on the website itself is having technical problems.

You can also attempt to reset Internet Explorer back to defaults to see if that resolves the issue.

  1. Click START
  2. Click 'Control Panel'
  3. Double click 'Internet Options'
  4. Click on the 'Advanced' tab and select 'Reset...' at the very bottom of the Window
  5. Restart your computer

Let us know what happens,

Thanks!

Ryan Thieman

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-14T06:05:03+00:00

    thanks for the instruction.. solve the problem!.. :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-14T03:44:33+00:00

    XP will not restore active desktop

    just had same problem. Ryan T and NightHawk 02s' solutions didn't work on my XP. after messing about a bit found this simple solution.--- Go to Start/Search-all files and folders/ print 'Desktop'-look in Local hard drives [C,D,] and click Search. find 'Show Desktop' [near top of list on mine] and double click. worked for me, let me know how you get on.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-04T17:41:54+00:00

    download Microsoft Fix it 50208 

    or

    go to url:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929200#top

    it helped me a lot and it was the most efficient method i ever found. please try it

    It would take hardly 3 minutes or even less

    i also tried the above mentioned solutions but none worked 

    but the solution i mentioned worked very well.hence i would strongly recommend you to go to the above url.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-07-28T02:42:20+00:00

    thank you, thank you, this fixed my desktop too

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