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Yep. It's because Active Desktop was essentially running an instance of Internet Explorer rendering to your desktop, of course it's slow and memory intensive.
by jonathanlydall 2y ago
Yep.
It's because Active Desktop was essentially running an instance of Internet Explorer rendering to your desktop, of course it's slow and memory intensive.
Disabling Active Desktop and the fancy views on the left pane of Windows Explorer made Windows 98 change from quite slow to super responsive.
- crummy 2y agoDidn't Active Desktop let you set a webpage as your wallpaper? Crazy times.
- protocolture 2y agoIt would let you just drop gifs on the desktop too. IIRC I had (at my first job, at the age of like 12) a bunch of constantly moving mechwarrior gifs on my desktop. Timberwolf and Vulture for sure.
- fourthark 2y agoAll in order to prove that the browser should be part of the OS and was not at all gratuitous tying to defeat Netscape.
- geon 2y agoYes. I wrote some js to have a drawing of a woman blink her eyes with random intervals. Was fun but super distracting.
- pjmlp 2y agoAnd the best lesson new generations got out of that experience was to ship a whole browser alongside the application.