> The only way I have found is to get it from installing IE4.01
>
> It may sound like a pain, but uninstall your current ver of IE and install
> ver 4.01 choosing active desktop as an option. Then upgrade to current ver.
To uninstall IE 5, install IE 4 and the reinstall IE 5 is a very complex
way Microsoft describes to install Active Desktop, but there is an
easier way to do this, found in a newsmail of a german pc-magazine
(PC-Welt) http://www.pcwelt.de/index.asp?showpage=/ausgabe/99_11/n161199012.htm.
I tried to translate this article into English, I give no warranty for the
correctness of this translation:
"The Active Desktop components are contained in a cab-file named IE4SHLNT.CAB on
the IE 4 CD-ROM. Extract all files in a temporary folder with WinZIP or
CabViewer. Right-click on the IE4SHELL.INF and choose 'install'. The
errormessage 'the file wallpaper couldn't be found' must be answered with
'skip', don't cancel the installation. After installation reboot. After reboot
the 'Start'-button won't work. Open My Computer|Control Panel|Software and
choose the entry 'Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and Internettools'. Click
'Add/Remove'. In the following window choose 'repair' and click 'OK'. After
reboot register with Start|Run 'regsvr32.exe webvw.dll' the webvw.dll new."
I tried this on my PC and it works. But remember the Active Desktop needs a lot
of resources.
