[WEB4LIB] Active Desktop and default browser

[D. Keith Higgs]

No way around it without doing some serious license violation on both
Windows and IE.  Active Desktop is implemented by imposing an IE
document area on the Windows desktop. (Essentially they tell
explorer.exe to replace its own interface with the one provided by
iexplore.exe)


D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu>
 Case Western Reserve University
  Webmaster - University Library
  Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Isabel Danforth
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 11:20 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Active Desktop and default browser

I have been playing on my home computer with Active Desk top - Win 98

When I create a simple page with a list of links, it places that on my 
desktop without any problems.  My default browser on the machine is 
Netscape.  If I create a new desktop shortcut it still uses Netscape.
If I 
click on the links in this simple page of links that I display using the

active desktop, it does use Internet Explorer.  Is there anyway of
getting 
around that?

Currently we use Netscape on our public computers.

Thanks for any help.

Isabel