Customizing the Desktop

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Active Desktop for Windows 2000 Professional uses Web, HTTP, and HTML components — such as Web sites, Microsoft ActiveX Controls, and floating frames, along with traditional Microsoft Win32 presentation services — to enhance the Windows user interface.

Active Desktop incorporates Microsoft Internet Explorer with HTML Web browser technology to enable browsing and viewing information, along with new features such as subscriptions that allow the desktop to automatically receive information from network servers on TCP/IP networks.

Using Active Desktop, you can:

  • Add Web content to desktops from the Internet or your intranet.

  • Use subscriptions to regularly update content.

  • Browse the Active Desktop Gallery to choose sites.

  • Lock down Active Directory elements to prevent changes.