African Safari Wallpaper Collection for Windows
Last Updated on Sunday, 10 July 2011 12:44 Written by Alan Friday, 15 July 2011 07:00
If you love wildlife, especially of the big, exotic, African variety, then we just came across a collection of spectacular photos from How-To Geek that you will want to check out.
There are a total of sixteen photos, covering wildlife from all around the Serengeti. You will find crocodiles, gorillas, hippos, elephants, zebras, and many others. Unfortunately, they are not packages up as a theme. You will need to right-click each photo and save it or set it as your wallpaper. You can find the collection over at the How-To Geek Desktop Fun page.
Customize The Windows 7 Login Screen Background
Last Updated on Friday, 18 March 2011 09:00 Written by Alan Saturday, 23 April 2011 06:00
Everyone is familiar with the background displayed during Windows login. It’s boring, but it used to be rather difficult to change. With Windows 7, though, that has changed. Changing it still isn’t for everyone, since it involves a dreaded Registry hack, but it is much simpler than it used to be. Here is how to pull it off.
Before we started, though, you need to know that your new background photo has to be 256 KB or less. You will also want it to match the aspect ratio of your monitor since it will be stretched to fit.
1. Click Start => Search and type REGEDIT.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background.
3. Double-click the DWORD key called OEMBackground (not there? Create it) and set its value to 1.
4. Find the image you want to use and copy that image into the %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder (create the info\backgrounds folders if they don’t exist).
5. Rename the image to backgroundDefault.jpg, reboot, and you should now have a custom log-on image.
Rotating Wallpaper in Windows 7
Last Updated on Saturday, 10 July 2010 09:18 Written by Alan Saturday, 10 July 2010 09:12
Everyone has their personal wallpaper on their Windows PC. It’s one of the first things most people due to customize a computer. Some people even change it periodically, but I suspect many never do. The idea of Wallpaper (now called Desktop Background by Microsoft) has been around since Windows 95.
However, Windows 7 improves on this often-used, but seldom-trumpeted feature. One of the most important ways it does this is by allowing an automatic rotation of multiple images to be used. It’s a slide show on you desktop that never ends and can be completely chosen and controlled by you.
You can choose from a number of high quality images that are included in Windows, you can download more from Microsoft or elsewhere on the web, or you can use you own digital photos.
With all of that said, lets set up a slide show. We’ll use our digital photos for this example.
1. Start by right-clicking on your desktop and choosing Personalize.
2. At the bottom of the screen click Desktop Background.
3. The Pictures Location Dropdown will let you choose between all locations on your PC (or network). You can choose Windows Desktop Backgrounds (high-quality Microsoft images), Picture Library (you photos and saved images), Solid Colors, and more.
4. As you mouse-over each image a check box will appear at the top left of the picture. To add the image simply check the box.
5. Once you have chosen you images for the slide show you can then choose the interval at which you would like the background to change. Simply choose from the dropdown box at the bottom of screen under Change picture every:
And that’s all there is to it. There are many other Personalization options you can play around with and I will cover more of those in another post.
