How to Solve Restore Active Desktop Issue????

December 23, 2008 · Filed Under Tutorials 

If you happen to switch off your machine unexpectedly (due to power failure or forced shut down) then you’ll get a white screen with a button to restore. Most of the time using this button you can restore your active desktop, but sometimes it’ll never work and you’ll have to have that white ugly screen all the time.

By doing a edit in registry you can recover your Desk-top. Steps are as follows

Active Desktop Issue

Active Desktop Issue

  • start -> run -> regedit
  • Now Registry window will open
  • Choose folders as in this order HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
  • Open HTML Version
  • edit the html version to 0 (Value Data)
  • Now refresh your desk-top

Here we go! You’ll no longer have that annoying ugly button “Restore my Active Desktop”


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11 Responses to “How to Solve Restore Active Desktop Issue????”

  1. sandip on March 25th, 2009 12:59 am

    ok..
    If the reg value is “0″ & internet explorer is IE7 then after doing all the steps. problem is stil on…

  2. loi on April 22nd, 2009 4:49 pm

    my registry has been disabled by administartor? waht do i do? this has happened a lot…help pls!

    loi’s last blog post..MVI_1310.AVI

  3. rajakumar on June 3rd, 2009 3:08 pm

    Good Solution…..

  4. Pete on June 19th, 2009 2:32 am

    Worked perfect, thank you…last time I called Norton, paid $100.00…never again.

  5. Mayooresan on June 19th, 2009 1:20 pm

    @Loi
    If you dont’ have Admin rights then you can’t do this. Sorry dude

  6. Mahesh on September 17th, 2009 1:19 am

    Excellent, its working……..Thanks

  7. ravi on September 30th, 2009 9:51 pm

    thx mayu, solved the problem in my laptop.

  8. Danny on October 1st, 2009 4:39 pm

    Splendid, This really helped me.

  9. Zamir on October 19th, 2009 12:37 pm

    Thanks, Solved the problem.

  10. Pit on November 13th, 2009 9:48 am

    Thanks, great solution

  11. Hemant Patidar on March 9th, 2010 4:33 pm

    Instant solution

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