bglen,

You might not like this reply but I am just trying to be helpful and mean no harm. Active Desktop is famous for that..its part of the "bloated code" (trying to be everything to everyone windows os)..that being said...for great and faster performance and LESS crashes on windows os's..dont use active desktop if you dont have to..most of what changes is that for desktop wallpaper you can use bmps and it wont require that you have it on.

Hope this helps you.
Bonnie


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Bonnie,

Thanks for the response. I am currently not using any bmp or backgrounds and everything is "unchecked" regarding active desktop. What seems odd though is that when I right click to go to "properties" from the desktop and go to the "web" tab, none of the slides or checks can be changed. If everything is unchecked, it should be turned off right? But why can't something be changed?

Thanks,

What OS are you running?

I am also having this problem on 2 new Dimension 8200's running Dell-installed Windows 2000 SP2, formatted FAT32. It appears to occur randomly, and can happen either in Windows Explorer or in any other program with a Browse function. It occurs only when exploring local drives; network drives are explorable. Once it occurs, the only option is to reboot and pray Explorer will work for awhile.

This needs to be resolved before I install the other 3 machines I ordered, or Dell will find all 5 back at their receiving dock.

DELL: PLEASE RESPOND.

Also, are you on a network? A Dell tech told me to try running off-network for awhile to narrow down the possibilities, but in my case there's no work I can do off the network.

And I forgot to add that I'm not running Active Desktop either.

there are tons of us running win2k with the same problem. i have run the win2k repair twice and found that it will work one time on the first reboot after the repair.
do you have the cdrw. one user said it he order several machines and only the 3 that had cdrw had the error.

i hope dell comes out with a patch soon because this is killing me.

I am having the same problem... has there been a fix for this yet?

RosieBalusek wrote:
- there are tons of us running win2k with the same
- problem. i have run the win2k repair twice and
- found that it will work one time on the first reboot
- after the repair.
- do you have the cdrw. one user said it he order
- several machines and only the 3 that had cdrw had
- the error.
-
- i hope dell comes out with a patch soon because this
- is killing me.
-
-

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