[Active Desktop is disabled in IE7 and IE8.]

Anteaus wrote:
> Also makes me wonder if you have the Active Desktop on turned on.
> ('View my desktop as a webpage..' in display settings)
> This always gives rise to issues, has done since IE4.
>
> "JimB" wrote:
>> I am using Windows XP, SP3
>>
>> "bargz" wrote:
>>> I have Windows XP SP3, and I decided to install Internet Explorer 8 last
>>> week. It installed fine, and I used it for a week, but my desktop UI
>>> speed had become NOTICEABLY sluggish: when I move windows around, there
>>> would be a white "lag" behind them, similar to turning on "mouse trails"
>>> for your cursor. It acted like I had disabled video acceleration.
>>> Also,
>>> YouTube videos were jittery and my CPU utilization was very high while
>>> watching.
>>>
>>> Thinking it may have been outdated NVidia drivers, I downloaded and
>>> installed the latest release from NVidia's web site, but the situation
>>> did
>>> not improve.
>>>
>>> I've searched the web and the newsgroups and cannot find anyone with a
>>> similar problem; I found some people complained about sluggish WEB PAGES
>>> with IE8, but my issue is not that web pages are slow to load, but
>>> specifically it's a problem with my GUI rendering speed.
>>>
>>> Anyway, this morning I uninstalled IE8, rebooted, and now my GUI speed
>>> is
>>> back to normal (fast) -- I can move windows around without trails -- so
>>> it is obviously something with Internet Explorer 8.
>>>
>>> My system specs:
>>> Dell 400SC
>>> Pentium-4 HT 2.8GHz single core
>>> 3 GB memory
>>> NVidia GeForce 7600 GS 512MB AGP 8X, driver version 185.85
>>> Dual LCD monitors
>>> Windows XP SP3 with all high-priority updates
>>>
>>> Thoughts? Anyone?