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Changing the Active Desktop Wallpaper in Internet Explorer/Win98

Keywords:     win98 windows 98 internet explorer
Here's how to change the active desktop. For example, how to change the wallpaper in Internet Explorer/Windows 98.

It's difficult to write the whole general thing.

The htt files is at: 

   C:\WINNT\Profiles\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\desktop.htt
for NT (substitute your windows directory and user ID)

and 

   C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\desktop.htt
for Windows 95 (for single user mode, haven't tried multi user mode).

It would be rather difficult to change the htt (just an HTML file) generally. All I did is to update the <body background=>. In doing this, I actually made a copy of the htt, cut it into two, and sandwitch my file name. IE: I overwrite the desktop.htt everytime.

Finally, do a: 

    wprev=winGetActive()
    sendkeysto("Program Manager","{F5}")
    if winExist(wprev)then winActivate(wprev)
to refresh the desktop. Works on both NT and 95. 
Article ID:   W13211

Filename:   Change Win98 Wallpaper.txt