Enabling real-time content on a Windows desktop. Introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Web pages could be turned into desktop items that were updated ...

I tried using Active Desktop once a long time back and it was a bit of a mistake. Although I'm not really tempted again, I have this feeling that under the right circumstances it could really enhance ...

How can you make your Windows desktop more useful-for example, have it deliver the news? Well, via a generally neglected (and discarded!) Desktop feature called Active Desktop, which has been around ...

Opening a Web browser to check the news is for suckers. Wouldn't it be better if your very desktop housed live, constantly updated snippets of Web pages? That way you could keep all sorts of useful ...

and the fact I was fiddling around with my desktop properties. This page could be a real cool desktop background, but only if it was still usable. Then I remembered that Windows has the ability to ...

I don't use Active Desktop, but I know a few people that do. They right click on pictures they like (via IE) and select "Set as Desktop item..." and then IE puts that picture on their ...