Friday, April 11, 2008

Set the playoff desktop as a desktop item to get the new picture automatically

Some of you have asked me how to set the Playoff background as a desktop item which allows you to get the latest picture automatically everytime you logon, or to be able to synchronize the picture without visiting the blog. Here are the steps to do this:

Right click on your desktop and choose Properties. The display properties dialog box comes up.
Click on the Desktop tab
Under Background, scroll to the top of the list, and choose None
Click the Customize Desktop... button. This opens the Desktop Items dialog box.
Click on the web tab.
Click on the new button.
In the location text box paste this link:
http://www.3n1apparel.com/images/2008NHLPlayoffs.jpg
Click OK
Click OK in the Desktop Items dialog box.
If you want, you can change the background Color to better match the Playoff background if your screen resolution is larger than 1024x768.
Finally, click apply, and then OK.
The picture will then appear on your desktop inside a grey border. You can drag and resize this border to your liking.

To get the latest picture, just right click anywhere inside the grey border and choose refresh. This will ge the latest playoff picture. If you restart your machine, or log in, it should get the latest picture automatically.

Hope this helps. Go AVS!

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