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Happy New Year everybody! We have just entered into the big 2004 down here in Australia.

We at neowin, wish you all a happy and safe holiday. Good luck with all those new years resolutions and drive safely!

-Keldyn

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January Desktops - 2004

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Visual Style: Windows Clasic

Wallpaper: Wave.jpg by ???

Cursors: Theme North by Theme North

Running Programs: PSI (A Jabber Client), Mozilla Firebird (Lates Nightly), Enemy Territory Minimiser ( By: http://www.gonbon.com), Virtual Daemon Manager, Norton AintiVirus 2003, OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 Quick Starter. On Task Bar CD icon is a shortcut to a *.vbs to eject my newly steathled CD Rom Drive :D.

The VBS Code if any one want's

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
colCDROMs.Item(1).Eject 'Eject second drive

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My 100th desktop apparently, first of 2004 as well.

Theme: Bluecurve 4.0, personal Ergo (and Olive) mod

Icons: Bluecurve from Fedora Core 1

Wallpaper: Personal mod of default.png and lightwaves.png from Fedora Core 1

WMP9 taskbar skin: Personal skin to match Fedora Core 1

Start button has been replaced by Press Start and Start Killer from TrueLaunchBar. I just reshacked "pressstart.exe" to have the nice Red Fedora.

Msgina.dll hacked with custom Fedora bitmaps by moi.

Toolbar is a Yz Toolbar theme taken and turned into a shell32.dll mod, didn't really want Yz Toolbar running.

Click on the thumbnails for the full view. First desktop is a clean view, second is a view with all the goodies hanging out:

XP100a.jpg (1280*1024, 147kb)

XP100aThumb.png

XP100b.jpg (1280*1024, 349kb)

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Wow, Australia is already in 2004 :woot:

In Germany it's still '03 and afternoon :wacko:

So it's a good opportunity for me to look back what i've done with my desktop in 2003!

Here's one from june i think:

Olivers_Desktop_klein0.jpg

Take a closer look!

Visual Style: Milk Redux by KoL

Wallpaper: something from rad-e8

Icons: Snow E2 from rad-e8

Programs: QCD with Duckie's itunes skin, y'z toolbar with snowe toolbar

Take a look at that nice girl, that's Sarah, the singer of K's Choice, my favourite band! Visit http://kschoice.com/ and listen to their great music!

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It's only Dec 31, and 10:18am here...

Now, this is my other desktop. About the only cool thing I have on it (aside from XP's silver theme) is the "Angry Robo-Kitty" as my four-year old daughter calls him. She picked him off of deviant art while I was browsing there. Not bad taste, and I like it, so here we are.

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