Q. I've suddenly started having a problem with Active Desktop Recovery being shown every time I start my (Win XP Pro) machine. When I click "Restore my Active Desktop" I get the following error:

"An error has occured in a script on this page:

Line 65

Char 1

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/My%20Name/Application%20Data/Microsoft/Internet%20Explorer/Desktop.htt"

Here is the solutions for this problem

1. Run regedit

2. Find this entry - HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopSafeModeComponents

3. Change the key value - DeskHtmlVersion REG_DWORD 0x00000110(272) to decimal zero

4. Close regedit log off and log back on.

This has worked for all our XP clients

Expert User

Heres a basic script to change the above registry setting

HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\" & strComputer & " ootdefault:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "SoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopSafeModeComponents"
strValue = "0"
ValueName = "DeskHtmlVersion"
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, strValue

Copy this to notepad and save as activedesktop.vbs, then run the file, logoff then log back in again

Hope this help, if not give me a call at 909-862-4141