How to restore active desktop on your PC


How to restore active desktop on your PC
You are likely to experience this if you use a PC with Windows XP and you will see a button with phrase "Restore my active desktop" on your desktop wallpaper. The major cause of this is improper shutdown of Computer system due to issues like power failure or some device failure that might cause your PC to shutdown. As time goes on, your PCs desktop will start displaying "Active Desktop Recovery" and it would give you the option "Restore my active Desktop”.

What is the way out?
There are many ways to remove this message from your desktop
(1)  Click on the button “RESTORE MY ACTIVE DESKTOP” and your desktop will come back to normal.
Note: In some cases this might not work. Then you will need to try the step 2
   
 (2)      Follow the steps below in order to restore your active desktop: 
          I.    Right-click anywhere on the Desktop and click “Properties”
        II.    In Display Properties change to the Desktop tab, there you will see a monitor image with your wallpaper and you will see images listed under the sub-heading “background”.
       III.    Select any other image in the list than the one currently selected and then select the original image used as wallpaper and click apply & then Ok.
You should be ok and your selected will be displayed on your desktop. 

Click here if your Restore Active Desktop is not still working

Here is an advance solution to this issue. Please follow the steps below carefully: 
(1)       From “Start” click on ” RUN”
(2)       Type “Regedit” & press Enter or Click OK
(3)       Navigate to:     HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
(4)       Change the DeskHTMLVersion key from 272 to 0 and reboot.
Then original desktop should now be back.

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