upgraded Start Menu allowing drag and drop item reordering and allowing right-click context menus for item renaming, etc. With the update, Windows Explorer featured an Address bar in which Internet addresses can be entered and seamlessly browsed. Active Desktop never attained any significant degree of popularity, as its drawbacks included high use of system resources and reduction in system stability. The component was retained in Windows XP but was replaced by a feature named Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista. Sidebar in turn was called Windows Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7, which also allows components to be added to the desktop, but it was also discontinued due to security issues; Windows 8 replaced it with live tiles in the Start screen, which were replaced with Widgets in Windows 11. Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit is the most recent Microsoft operating system to support Active Desktop. It appears that the 64-bit version of Windows XP no longer supports Active Desktop. However, it still provides the option to display Web pages and channels built with Microsoft's Channel Definition Format (CDF) on the desktop. The HTML displaying capabilities are now mainly used for creating original wallpapers and adding search boxes to the desktop. For example, a user could copy the following code to display Wikipedia's search-box on the desktop: <form action="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search" id="searchform" name="searchform"> <input accesskey="f" id="searchInput" name="search" type="text" value="" /> <input id="searchGoButton" name="go" type="submit" value="Go" /> </form> See also Active Channel Channel Definition Format References External links Internet Explorer 4.0 Desktop Gallery (archived) Detailed technical documentation of Internet Explorer 4.0 features/changes (archived) Windows components Discontinued Windows components Push technology Windows 98