IE7 crashes Active Desktop

It appears now the WSUS is alive and kicking again we are playing catchup, some users have had this little beauty.

If IE7 doesnt manage to finish its install and cleanup process completely (usually because a user shuts down before completion) the .htt files used by active desktop are not upgraded to the new IE7 version. This results in the active desktop crash showing the recovery button. Clicking the button just throws up a script error.

To fix this you have to change a registry entry in the current user tree:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components"
strValue = "0"
ValueName = "DeskHtmlVersion"
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, strValue

Save the text as a .vbs file and get any users with this error to run it and fix active desktop.

Why are we even using active desktop? Well we use it to display the company logo in the centre of the screen and prevent everyone having everything from hot babes to football logos on their desktop!