No more BORING desktop!-update

No More Boring Desktop!!!!

Tips for updating a boring desktop to something personal and stylish.

For my desktop used the following:

Windows Alternative Shell: SharpE http://www.sharpe-shell.org/

Selected Wallpaper: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32382975/

Cursor Theme: Cursor XP: http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/


Click here to see Screenshot.



Updating the Wallpaper in 3 steps:

1) Finding Wallpapers:

http://images.google.com

http://gowallpapers.com

http://deviantart.com

http://webshots.com

http://flickr.com


2) Saving Wallpaper:

In web browser, right click on image and save as follows:

IE: save link as
Netscape/Firefox: save image as


3) Setting Wallpaper:

Windows:
a) right click on desktop
b) select 'desktop'
c) click 'browse'
d) select the file

XWin: xset root command http://www.xfree86.org/current/xsetroot.1.html

4) Cycling Wallpaper:
There are software applications that can cycle wallpapers at a specified time(eg. every 10mins)
http://jamesgart.com/wallpaperchanger/
http://www.nuonsoft.com/wallpapercycler/

5) Colorize your taskbar and windows:
Windows:
On desktop right-click -> select properties
click on 'Appearance' tab-> select '...classic..' for 'window and buttons'
click on advanced button-> select '3d object' window item
click on 'color 1' button->
click 'other' button, use palette to select color
'add to custom colors', click on color -> 'ok' button
click 'ok' button at advanced apperance window
click 'apply' at display properties window

Click here to see sample, photo found on flickr.com.