FIX: ActiveX EXEs That Run as the Launching User May Use the Wrong Desktop

ActiveX EXEs that are set to run as the launching user may use the wrong desktop. This can occur if the creating process is impersonating a user other than the user account under which it is running when it launches the ActiveX EXE. Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is a good example of such a process. This affects ActiveX applications that require access to the desktop of the impersonated user.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.