Desktop Animations (Active desktop?)

Crabman

Hiya there,

I was wondering if it is possible to use an active desktop or something to put an active i.e. moving or animated background on my desktop?

At the moment I just have Nacho Libre on the desktop which is funny but a little boring - I have a Centrino chipset with Pentium M 2.6Ghz 512MB RAM and 2MB L2 Cache so my laptop should be able to handle things like this...

Cheers :beer:

Crabman

ABH_3

Crabman wrote:

Hiya there,

I was wondering if it is possible to use an active desktop or something to put an active i.e. moving or animated background on my desktop?

At the moment I just have Nacho Libre on the desktop which is funny but a little boring - I have a Centrino chipset with Pentium M 2.6Ghz 512MB RAM and 2MB L2 Cache so my laptop should be able to handle things like this...

Cheers :beer:

Crabman

Get Active Desktop
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,39962,00.asp *watch out for the popups.

HTH

Crabman

ABH wrote:

Get Active Desktop
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,39962,00.asp *watch out for the popups.

HTH

Thanks - it isn't as great as I thought it would be - just messed up my desktop and made it look tacky. I'm sticking with Nacho Cheers anyway :beer:

ABH_3

Crabman wrote:

Thanks - it isn't as great as I thought it would be - just messed up my desktop and made it look tacky. I'm sticking with Nacho Cheers anyway :beer:

Well, you never know these things untill you try them do you? I seem to recall when it was first launched, there was a NASA page you could link to that gave a revolving earth image from one of their satelites. Or you could choose your country from space etc.

It maybe worth your while looking on the NASA site to see what you can find if that sort of thing interests you.

HTH

Crabman

Looked into NASA but I'll stick with my current desktop for now...