Hi!
After uninstalling Winstep my Active Desktop disapperared. I can add objects in the preferences but they arent displayed on desktop.
please help.
thanks in advice!

edit:
my HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\' 'NoActiveDesktop' IS 0

There is also a button in the Global Preferences tab of NextSTART to enable/disable Active Desktop.

The problem is that Active Desktop can sometimes conflict with some of the things NextSTART (and other shell customization software) does.

i used this button, over and over again. i turned AD off and NextStart questioned me to reboot, so rebooted. nothing. i start NextStart again and AD seems to be active, but it isnt. so i disabled it and NS rebooted and so on ..everything with no result.
im very depressed coz i dont want to reinstall windows

Hmmm... That's strange. All NextSTART does to disable ActiveDesktop is to set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoActiveDesktop

to 1. If it is set to 0 as you mention and Active Desktop is still not enabled then something weird is going on. Try deleting that key altogether. If that still doesn't work, check the following page:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... /93207.asp

Also, open the Windows Display Properties dialog, click on the Desktop tab, click on the Customize Desktop button and then select the Web tab. See what you can do from there and then get back to me.