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thats very cool rzolkos,

I think Active Desktop has been stigmatized because win9x wasnt stable enuff to handle it, but on 2k it seemed to run ok - maybe ill give it a go again

:D

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Originally posted by AuRe  

What does one need???

and html?  

could u explain it ???

yeh it is not as easy to see in XP

in 98/ME u activated it by right cliking the desktop - in XP i think its the 'Lock Web items on desktop' option (after rigth clikin desktop)

basically it is a method of having HTML based items as or on ur desktop..

so u could have www.neowin.net on ur desktop :D

ask rzolkos to explain u the advanced stuff, by the look of his desktop he's pretty good at it

:)

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OK. To put HTML "panels" on your desktop with custom content.

1. Right Click your desktop and select Properties

2. Then select the Desktop tab

3. Then press the Customize Desktop button

4. and then the Web tab.

From there you can add/edit/delete "active desktop items" simply by typing a url.

HTH :cool:

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but then u talk about a home page, but we see in the shoot are elemts from the web, google search, neowin news etc...

So one could think that is a custom html? or is a wallpaper with html elements?

Thanks

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There are 3 web pages displayed on my desktop pictured above.

One is a Google Search bar that I wrote. It's pretty cool 'cos you can search for news and images from the same search box simply by adding an i or a n to your searches.

The other two web pages are the "panels" - One for slashdot and one for neowin. I can position these whereever I want using Active Desktop.

:cool:

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mines nothing special, its just a update to Osirus's desktop to suit my needs.

I do like the original posters desktop ALOT thou :)

Image1.jpg

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hehe thanks mate

yeah it took a bit of troubleshooting to get working but when it did finally get workin as u can see, worked like a dream.

as for tutorial, well i myself dont know how to get the latest things from neowin showing on the desktop itself (im sure if u asked in the programming forum here someone will help you out) but for the simple desktop like what I got its not all that hard to do.

Just look on the web for a background, then draw it on paper, then draw on that paper where you want content to go, and simply load up dreamweaver, frontpage etc and put things in place using layers (thats what I personally like) :p

basically what im sayin is find the background, then build your active desktop "around" that background. Get help for whatever you want to do with the desktop from the forums here, Alot of people will help you out if u ask :)

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Chipi - *falls over*

dude ive decided that my version SUCKS after seeing that!

great work man!

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