Malwarebytes - NoActiveDesktopChanges

[Azural]

Is this from registry change? I haven't done anything else that might edit display properties since I installed 7077x64 last night.

 

[Brink]

Is this from registry change? I haven't done anything else that might edit display properties since I installed 7077x64 last night.

Hello Azural,

No, that's not from this. That was coded in by Microsoft temporarily for just during the evaluation proccess of Windows 7. You can allow MalwareBytes to remove it though.

 

[Night Hawk]

Eventually this feature is supposed to be included in 7 while not seen at this time even in the 7077 build. You likely find it until the RTM stage where the mod here is great for the builds upto this point.

 

[Azural]

Hello Azural,

No, that's not from this. That was coded in by Microsoft temporarily for just during the evaluation proccess of Windows 7. You can allow MalwareBytes to remove it though.

No idea what that's from then...I didn't think there were any issues when I used this on x86.

Thanks.

 

[Brink]

I believe that has been there since the official 7000 Beta build of Windows 7 in both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It's just a group policy setting set by Microsoft to disable the Active Desktop feature in Windows 7 until they decide to do whatever with it. It's basically a false positive found by Malwarebytes.

 

[Night Hawk]

That's one thing missing from the 7077 as seen here.



I'm just wondering where you would look to see if that feature is now available in the latest builds?

 

[Airbot]

erm...no, it's been there from the beginning and still is.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer/NoActiveDesktopChanges.

It's set at 1 at default. If you let Malwarebytes "fix" it, it will change the 1 to 0. Or you can navigate to the key and change it to 0 yourself.

 

[Night Hawk]

I noticed you are running the 64bit 7077 while the snip there is from the 32bit version. If you notice the "policies>explorer" sub folder isn't even present on the 32bit registry there.

 

[Airbot]

umm...how did you notice my snip was a shot of 32 bit regedit?

It's not, it's of 64 bit regedit.

And it's there with the 32 or the 64 bit regedit. As everytime I clean install a new build, Malwarebytes picks this up registry key everytime.



Or are you saying you're running 32 bit 7077 and it's not there for you?

 

[Night Hawk]

I have the 64bit on as well but am looking in the 32bit 7077 to see that missing since I have that set as the default OS for the moment. Once I boot into the 64bit I'll likely find what you are showing there.

 

[Airbot]

Pretty weird. Did you clean install or upgrade the 32?

We need someone with a virgin x86 7077 to confirm it's there or not maybe.

 

[Night Hawk]

The 64bit 7077 simply replaced the 7000 version of that since I still haven't been able to connect online without the drivers needed. As I thought however what you have there is limited to the 64bit 7s. With a quick reboot here I came ran across two identical entries.



Now that's a little odd having two identical dwords probably seen when replacing the previous install not an upgrade but replacement by custom.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi guys,

I've just been looking through this thread & i've found that I don't have Explorer when i navigate to the above mentioned key
Running (fairly) clean install of 7077 x86

 

[Night Hawk]

That was never put into the 32bit 7 from the start apparently since the MS intent there was focused on the 64bit 7. If you look around at some different blogs MS is taking notice of what percentage of users have bought the 64bit Vista and are now looking at that for 7.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Ah, cheers. Shame but, at least that's that cleared up.

+rep

 

[Night Hawk]

I'm waiting to see which build will be first to actually see the option available. Until then... http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5382-log-screen-change.html?filter[2]=Appearance Personalize

 

[nate42nd]

I have Malwarebytes picking this up in my Vista x64 last October when I got my current machine. I looked it up and have it set to ignore it.

 

[Night Hawk]

The early 7 stages would obviously be carry overs from Vista to start with showing this was something first being looked at in the previous version's 64bit edititions there but never implemented. With the long delay seen with Vista release they simply passed that up to move on from there.

The one thing to look forward to with the actual RC1 and even if there is a RC2? would be the compilation from all development labs to get a good idea of what the finished 7 will look like. When putting the 7077 on here for a look at just how far 7 had come along from the 7000s it was great to see it making some real progress!

 

[johngalt]

The 64bit 7077 simply replaced the 7000 version of that since I still haven't been able to connect online without the drivers needed. As I thought however what you have there is limited to the 64bit 7s. With a quick reboot here I came ran across two identical entries.



Now that's a little odd having two identical dwords probably seen when replacing the previous install not an upgrade but replacement by custom.

I reported this quite a while back as a false positive, after ascertaining this was Win7 related as opposed to DisplayFusion related.

NH - those are not identical - one ends in Desktop and the other continues on with something else. Expand the column....

I have Malwarebytes picking this up in my Vista x64 last October when I got my current machine. I looked it up and have it set to ignore it.

Yah, that is the general idea - ignore it and be happy - then you won't hae future problems when upgrading, unless of course there is a new, differently named key that it detects.

BTW: I was helping Marcin test a 64bit version of MBAM last night, and we are to continue it tonight....

 

[Night Hawk]

I shoudl have rephased that to finding two similar entries since one stops at the NoActiveDeskto... and expands further there. Once I reboot into the 64bit 7077 I'll edit in a better view of that.