Win ME and new 6.04 drivers

[lorenzoc]

I've a strange ME behaviour:

If I activate Active Desktop (Control Panel, Display, WEB, "show WEB content on my Active Desktop), Win ME starts opening Desktop, Icons, taskbar AND sends a message "number 27" telling that "the application is already running" (nothing more to better understand what is happening).

I "press "the OK button (the only one available) and the system starts without any other problem.

If I deactivate Active Desktop nothing strange happens.

I've initially upgraded from Win 98 SE; after this behaviour I formatted C: and installed WIN ME but it happens again.

If I uninstall Matrox drivers (using my G400 MAX as a standard vga) ALL is good, so I've the feeling that something is done both by WIN ME Active Desktop initialization and Matrox drivers.

P3BF
PIII 650
RAM 256 Mb
2 x IBM 15 Gb
G400 Max + RRG
SB Live
Digicom V90 ISA Modem

Many thanks for any help

Lorenzo - Italy

[Greebe]

Sounds like a bug in ME (bugging ME! LOL

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Greebe, I've got a can of RAID to sort you out. LOL

[Greebe]

Who said I was being bugged by Me, it's not on any of my systems

[ph0rk]

I suppose if I were to suggest something radical, like, say, turning off Active Desktop, I'd preobably get stoned for being smart ass.

IMHO, anyone silly enough (no offense, I use it for gaming too!) to be running a Win9x varient deserves whatever they get.

It seems somewhat akin (to me, anyways) to jumping off a bridge and asking why you broke both legs when you hit the ground.

Greebe, you're just too funny for your own good

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Cory Grimster
cory@houseofstuff.net
http://www.houseofstuff.net

[Greebe]

I can see it now, if they called it WinYOU and then complained to M$ about active desktop it would sound appropriate.

But sadly they didn't.

So your email would read:

Active Desktop doesn't work correct in Win9x and now it's Me.
When are you going to fix Me?

Cheese!

[Electric Amish]

Sorry, I don't know much about ME, but i've heard plenty of horror stories...

I would disable Active Desktop and see if that helps.

amish

[paulcs]

It does sound like some odd bug, so I vote for turning it off as well. I always disable it in Windows 98. (Not that I get a vote.)

If you want to put a JPEG or GIF on your desktop, you could always convert it to a bitmap, and then Active Desktop doesn't have to be enabled.

I'm reminded of the old joke -

Patient: Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this.

Doctor: Well, don't do that.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[lorenzoc]

End of the history (it's NOT a joke!!!):

I've contacted MS tech suport, as suggested by Matrox tech support.

This is the "problem determination":

Myself: I receive an error message.....
MS TechSupp: ohh, I've never seen this message, are you sure?
Myself: Yes, I'm sure.
MS TechSupp: I understand.. but Sir, are you sure you need Active Desktop? If you don't really need it, don't use it, so you solve your problem.
Myself: many thanks and ciao (bye in italian language).

Note: I've contacted Italian Tech Support, speaking Italian, so no language misunderstanding...

END OF MY HISTORY

Lorenzo - Italy

[Joel]

I'm running WindowsME and I have active desktop enabled, because I am using one of the G800 grounds that were posted, and I have not had any problems so far. Of course my install of WindowME was done clean instead of as an upgrade.

Joel

[Rags]

Active Desktop? What's an Active Desktop? One that goes out and rules the night?

Rags - United States

[Venturer]

Ciao lorenzo!
I ve ME with Active Desktop running, 6.04 drivers installed and all works fine!
My advice is: Try to format and re-install the OS

[lorenzoc]

I've solved my problem!!!

Logitech Mouseware SW was the problem!!!
To be honest, looking at the Logitech site, they say that this SW is not yet tested on ME; the solution is to remove Mouseware before upgrading to ME!! waiting for a new release.

Ciao to all of you

Lorenzo - Italy (Milano)