Enabling real-time content on a Windows desktop. Introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Web pages could be turned into desktop items that were updated ...

How can you make your Windows desktop more useful-for example, have it deliver the news? Well, via a generally neglected (and discarded!) Desktop feature called Active Desktop, which has been around ...

and the fact I was fiddling around with my desktop properties. This page could be a real cool desktop background, but only if it was still usable. Then I remembered that Windows has the ability to ...

Anyone who used computers in 1997 might get a feeling of deja vu when they use one of Internet Explorer 8’s most-hyped new features, WebSlices. WebSlices seems like nothing so much as a clone of the ...

Does anyone know how to get active desktop into NT4? Looking at the MSKB tells me that it originally came with part of Windows update in IE release 4, but you try getting your hands on that now!