In Windows, what is Active Desktop, and how do I

enable or disable it?

First available in Windows 98, Active Desktop allows a variety of file types to be
displayed as the desktop Wallpaper. Previous versions of Windows could display only
bitmap pictures (.bmp) files as Wallpaper, but Active Desktop supports web content,
movies, and a range of graphical formats. However, these dynamic applications use more
processor power than most users want to assign to their desktop background. As a
practical matter, Active Desktop is mostly used only to display static images. Active
Desktop was last issued with Windows XP; in Windows Vista it has been replaced by the
Windows Sidebar, which runs various tasks from the desktop.
To enable or disable Active Desktop:

Windows XP
1. Click the Start button and choose either Control Panel, or Settings and then
Control Panel.
2. Double-click Display.
3. Choose the Desktop tab, and then click Customize Desktop... .
4. Click the Web tab. Under "Web pages:", add the page that you want on your
desktop and check the box next to it. This will enable the Active Desktop. If you
wish to disable the Active Desktop, uncheck the box next to the web page.

Windows 2000
1. Click the Start button and choose Settings, then Control Panel.
2. Double-click Display.
3. In the Display Properties window, click the Web tab.
4. Check or uncheck View my Active Desktop as a web page. Click OK.
For more information, see article 190228, or search for Active Desktop, at the
Microsoft Help and Support web site.

What is BSD?
In the middle 1970s, around the time Version 6 was released, AT&T began to license its
Unix operating system. At little or no cost, individuals and organizations could obtain the
C source code. When the University of California at Berkeley received the source code,
Unix co-creator Ken Thompson was there as visiting faculty. With his help, researchers
and students, notably Sun co-founder Bill Joy, improved the code and developed the
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Funded by a grant from DARPA, the

Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) was the most important source of
Unix development outside of Bell Labs. Along with AT&T's own System V, BSD became
one of the two major Unix flavors.
Compared to System V, BSD was more experimental and innovative. It was favored more
by academic and research institutions than commercial enterprises, but strongly
influenced the entire Unix world. Unix mainstays such as the C-shell, vi, TCP/IP, and
virtual memory all made their first appearances in BSD releases. Sun Microsystem's
SunOS was a direct descendant of BSD 4.2, and System V was rewritten in its fourth
release to incorporate many BSD features. Many Unix systems are descended from
System V release 4 (SVR4), implying a significant, but indirect, BSD influence.
The last version of BSD to come from Berkeley was BSD 4.4, released in 1993. Most
BSD systems today are based on BSD 4.4-lite, which is unencumbered by copyrightprotected AT&T code. Three of these are freeware operating systems available primarily
for IBM-compatible PCs:

FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/

dia
RAID, an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks
Microsoft has stated that the CE is not an intentional initialism, but many people believe
CE stands for Consumer Electronics or Compact Edition. Microsoft says the letters
instead imply a number of Windows CE design precepts, including Compact,
Connectable, Compatible, Companion, and Efficient.[7] The first version, known during
development under the code name Pegasus, featured a Windows-like GUI and a
number of Microsoft's popular applications, all trimmed down for smaller storage,
memory, and speed of the palmtops of the day.