## Active Desktop

Active Desktop was a feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 that added
support for HTML content on the desktop, along with other features.

### Significance

Malware is known to use Active Desktop settings and components for persitence.

### Settings

The Active Desktop settings can be found in the Windows Registry key:

```
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General
```

### Components

The Active Desktop components can be found in the sub keys of the Windows
Registry key:

```
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components
```

### References

* [Wikipedia: Active Desktop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop)