Disabling Active Desktop

Active Desktop is a display option in Windows that gives your desktop the look and feel of a web page. You can disable the Active Desktop feature to conserve server memory and CPU resources.

To disable Active Desktop:

  1. Open the Remote Desktop Services Configuration Administrative Tool.
  2. In the Remote Desktop Services Configuration tree, select the Server Settings folder.
  3. Double-click the Active Desktop setting. The Active Desktop dialog box opens.
  4. Select the Disable Active Desktop check box and click OK.

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