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  • Re: Lively Wallpaper... Active Desktop

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Fri Jun 26 20:02:14 2026
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    On 6/26/2026 12:07 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

    How can anyone forget IE 4.0's Active Desktop?

    Was it Win98 (before I cry for Google Search)?!
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Fri Jun 26 13:15:37 2026
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    Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    How can anyone forget IE 4.0's Active Desktop?

    Was it Win98 (before I cry for Google Search)?!

    I think it started with Win95/WinNT4, maybe it lasted until
    Win98/Win2K/WinXP?


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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Fri Jun 26 20:21:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.windows7.general

    On 6/26/2026 8:15 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    How can anyone forget IE 4.0's Active Desktop?

    Was it Win98 (before I cry for Google Search)?!

    I think it started with Win95/WinNT4, maybe it lasted until Win98/Win2K/WinXP?
    Never ever used it, Meister Burns.
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Fri Jun 26 11:27:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.windows7.general

    On 06/26/2026 8:15 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    How can anyone forget IE 4.0's Active Desktop?

    Was it Win98 (before I cry for Google Search)?!

    I think it started with Win95/WinNT4, maybe it lasted until Win98/Win2K/ WinXP?



    IE4, initially was released in 1997 and included Outlook Express(OE).
    OE's initial release was also the rebranding(name change) of Internet
    Mail and News.

    Also in 1997 IE4 and Outlook Express also was packaged with MSN Explorer
    2.6.

    Active Desktop(AD) included in IE4(1997) lasted until Windows Vista
    circa 2006 when AD was deprecated, replaced by Windows Sidebar and Gadgets

    IE4/OE/AD were all released during the Win95 era and prior to Windows
    Vista.
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Fri Jun 26 16:41:57 2026
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    "....winston" wrote:

    IE4/OE/AD were all released during the Win95 era and prior to
    Windows Vista.


    I always prefer to look out of the window to see what the weather's
    like, rather than look at Windows' Widgets.


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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Sat Jun 27 01:35:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.windows7.general

    On 6/26/2026 11:41 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

    I always prefer to look out of the window to see what the weather's
    like, rather than look at Windows' Widgets.

    Most weather widgets report the overall weather of a big area, not just
    a house's outside weather. In fact, you should look up the definition of weather in high-school geography books.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general on Sat Jun 27 01:36:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.windows7.general

    On 6/26/2026 11:41 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

    I always prefer to look out of the window to see what the weather's
    like, rather than look at Windows' Widgets.

    Google "weather station". ;)
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  • From John@Man@the.keyboard to alt.windows7.general on Sun Jun 28 01:24:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.windows7.general

    On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:15:37 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
    wrote:

    Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Andy Burns wrote:

    How can anyone forget IE 4.0's Active Desktop?

    Was it Win98 (before I cry for Google Search)?!

    I think it started with Win95/WinNT4, maybe it lasted until >Win98/Win2K/WinXP?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

    ############################################

    Active Desktop was a feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0's
    optional Windows Desktop Update that allowed users to add HTML content
    to the desktop, along with some other features. This function was
    intended to be installed on the then-current Windows 95 operating
    system. It was also included in Windows 98 and later Windows operating
    systems up through 32-bit XP, but was absent from XP Professional x64
    Edition (for AMD64) and all subsequent versions of Windows. Its status
    on XP 64-bit edition (for Itanium) and on both 32-bit and 64-bit
    versions of Windows Server 2003 is not widely known. This corresponded
    to version Internet Explorer 4.0 to 6.x, but not Internet Explorer
    7.[1]

    ############################################

    J.

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