New Active Desktop Item Dialog Box Is Missing

• Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows 95
• Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows NT 4.0

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SYMPTOMS

When you click New on the Web tab in Display properties, the New Active Desktop Item dialog box that prompts you to connect to the Active Desktop gallery Web page on the Microsoft Web site may not appear.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if you have selected the "In the future, do not show me this dialog box" check box in the New Active Desktop Item dialog box.

RESOLUTION

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To work around this behavior, use either of the following methods:

• Enable the New Active Desktop Item dialog box that links to the Active Desktop gallery by changing the Visit Gallery String value to "Yes" (without quotation marks) under the following registry key:

        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\
        General\Visit Gallery
  

• Manually open the Active Desktop gallery Web page. To do this, connect to:

        http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/gallery/