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Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones by eldelshell on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:36PM (#23405387)
It also removed the IE thing which showed icons or some stuff like that... Wait, that was in 98.
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Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones by throwanem on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:57PM (#23405660)
Active Desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
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Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones by decko on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:30PM (#23410329)
Was that the feature that would occasionally replace your desktop background with an error message?
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Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones by organsnyder on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:12PM (#23406673)
Ugh. Disabling that was always my first action on a fresh install.
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Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones by ObsoleteNerd on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:38PM (#23410428)
What, you mean you didn’t feel the need to give up 75% of your system resources so you could have an active website as the wallpaper of your desktop?
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Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones by seba_dos1 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:54PM (#23411457)
...but hey, it allowed you to use a non-BMP image as a wallpaper! :)
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