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[Aklyon]

The only cool thing in my desktop is the backgrounds. Now only if I could make a program that automatically changed them.

Win7 has an option to do that, somewhere.

[ECrownofFire]

You can just Google "Vista background switcher" or something.

[lordnincompoop]

Wood.

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[ILikePie]

You can just Google "Vista background switcher" or something.

MS has these "power tools" or something that go all the way back to, if I remember correctly, win2000. They add workspaces, changing wallpapers, and I even think they had a compiz-like cube at some point.

[SolarShado]

powertools go back to 98 at least, i think 95. never used it, but they've got some cool "why isn't this included?!" stuff from what i've read

EDIT: it's called powertoys, not powertools. thx google

EDIT2: more google-fu seem so show that the last version of powertoys was for XP...

[atomicwinter]

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[Yaaga]

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Picture I use for my desktop, since I'm too lazy to clean up all my icons so that you can see the picture actually used on my own desktop. /lurk moar

[ILikePie]

What's with all those huge, distracting fractal desktop images?

[Thief^]

Speaking of fractals, I used to use this as my dual-monitor-spanned background.

It's from my own Mandelbrot renderer, so I'm quite proud of it.

[Quarr]

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Whoo, boring desktop. I spend most of my time looking at my desktop in an explorer window, so it's pretty rare for me to actually see my background.

[Tylui]

lol Every Day Genius Square Logic is awesome!

[ILikePie]

Speaking of fractals, I used to use this as my dual-monitor-spanned background.

It's from my own Mandelbrot renderer, so I'm quite proud of it.

Mandelbrots can look pretty damn good.

[Thief^]

Speaking of fractals, I used to use this as my dual-monitor-spanned background.

It's from my own Mandelbrot renderer, so I'm quite proud of it.

Mandelbrots can look pretty damn good.

If you like it, here's another, that I used to use on a single monitor.
And the renderer itself (which is a terrible program, but produces sweet output (at least I think so), especially when using the 256x Anti-Aliasing option).
Maybe I should start a thread just for this somewhere else.

[Andir]

You can just Google "Vista background switcher" or something.

They add workspaces, changing wallpapers, and I even think they had a compiz-like cube at some point.

Powertoys included a really crappy virtual desktop switcher (maybe I was spoiled by Linux, but I thought it was pretty crappy)... I'm pretty sure there was never a "compiz-like cube" in any version and I don't think there was a wallpaper switcher.  I remember having to get third party tools to even support multi-monitor wallpapers for some time.

[ILikePie]

I must have mixed powertoys and compiz, whoops. I'm positive they had a wallpaper switcher at some point.


Fakedit: Yep, they did. Don't know if it's worth anything though.