Win 98 and Active Desktop

[cmputrskillme]

Hello again all :D

What's the deal with Active Desktop in Win98 and SE? I've got lots of customers getting that annoying white screen when starting up and even I get it. I've turned mine off PERMANENTLY! Its not important.......since I'm not into bells, whistles, colors, pictures of my dog, etc,..... lol

Any ideas what causes this and is there a fix?

Thanks,
Sharon

[egghead]

when i used win98 i turned the active desktop off

it actually slows the bootup and i found it useless for my needs

it crashed when i used it so the best bet is to goto windows update and get everything
also get the latest drivers for your motherboard

alot of the crashes come from spyware so i would scan for that

it helps for a week until the customer clicks on a gator file and the computer turns into an ad server