active desktop - Customize my Desktop

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rolandm

We are running a network utilizing Windows 2000 Server.
When the group policies were established, users were not
able to access the active desktop in order to customize
their individual desktop. Since that time we would like
to give uses the ability to do this, but the only way it
seems to work is to give them domain administrator rights
which we do not want to do. Is there anyway to change
users permissions so that they have this abiltiy? Any
help would be appreciated.

Marilyn K. Roland
 
Enable Active Desktop
User Configuration\AdministrativeTemplates\Desktop\Active Desktop

Description
Enables Active Desktop and prevents users from disabling it.

This policy also disables the Show Web Content item on the context menu that
appears when you right-click the desktop; it disables the Show Web content
on my Active Desktop item on the Web tab in Display in Control Panel; and it
disables the Use Windows classic desktop item on the General tab of the
Folder Options dialog box. This prevents users from trying to enable or
disable Active Desktop while a policy controls it.

If you disable this policy or do not configure it, Active Desktop is
disabled by default, but users can enable it.

Important

If both the Enable Active Desktop policy and the Disable Active Desktop
policy are enabled, the Disable Active Desktop policy is ignored. If the
Enable Classic Shell policy is enabled, then Active Desktop is disabled and
both of these policies are ignored.

Note

This policy was documented incorrectly on the Explain tab in Group Policy
for Windows 2000. The description in this file provides an accurate list of
the user interface elements that the system disables when you enable the
policy.

Tip

To enable Active Desktop without setting a policy, right-click the desktop,
point to Active Desktop, and then click Show Web Content.


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