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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 – Permalink –
Cleanup Wizard
XP bother

XP has an annoying elf that tries to clean your desktop of unused icons. It pops up every two months.

To stop it:

Right-click a empty space on your desktop and choose Properties.
Click the Desktop tab.
Choose Customize Desktop.
Remove the check mark next to Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days.

Here are the instructions to change the interval between popups

Wizard Frequency

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Labels: Desktop, General, Tips

<Doug Klippert@ 7:01 AM

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Thursday, November 15, 2007 – Permalink –
High-Res Wallpaper
Details apparent

Choose from a broad selection of free pictures to use for wallpaper.

Download sizes from 1920x1200 to 320x240.

Free High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper

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Labels: Desktop

<Doug Klippert@ 5:47 AM

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Friday, July 20, 2007 – Permalink –
Put IE Back on Desktop
Regedit ahead

Click Start, Run.

Type "regedit.exe" (Without quotes).

Navigate to the following registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel

In the right hand pane, double-click {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} key.
Enter dword value as 0 to enable the Internet Explorer icon on the Desktop.

Internet Explorer 7 Desktop icon missing

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Labels: Desktop, Explorer

<Doug Klippert@ 7:05 AM

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Sunday, July 15, 2007 – Permalink –
More Icons Deal
Forgotten tricks

Here's a simple way to display different icons on your desktop.
Right-click on a desktop folder and choose Properties.
Click the change Icon button. You'll see a few icons. For more icons look at:
C:\WINNT\system32\moricons.dll

PC magazine has this article:
Assign Custom Icons to Windows Explorer Folders.

PC World:
Change Icon v1.2.1

Creating Icons
Also see:
The Iconolog, the art of virtual (desktop) litter.

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Labels: Customize, Desktop

<Doug Klippert@ 7:35 AM

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Monday, May 21, 2007 – Permalink –
Icon Title Opacity
See through

To make the background of desktop icons transparent, go to:

Control Panel > System > Advanced

Click Settings in the Performance section.

On the Visual Effects tab, check "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop".

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Labels: Desktop

<Doug Klippert@ 6:36 AM

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 – Permalink –
Clippy the April Fool
An unwelcome visitor

"Clippy is a simulated office assistant that, when ran, will hide in the background for 1 minute then popup in the lower right hand corner of the screen and say something useless. Every minute, Clippy pops up spouting useless nonsense about your computer.

That is not all! Clippy comes with a dozen or so default messages, but Clippy can be customized to fit your needs. You can create a clippy.txt file within the same directory as Clippy and when loaded, it will read this file to figure out which hints to blurt to the screen.

Move your mouse pointer to the TOP LEFT corner of your screen. This will stop the program from running in memory. If you have successfully moved your mouse in the correct position, the program will close and display an About Box Screen. Once you close this screen, the program will exit. Exiting the software will allow Windows to delete the file."

Rilsoftware.com Clippy

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Labels: Desktop, Tricks

<Doug Klippert@ 7:28 AM

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Monday, February 12, 2007 – Permalink –
Wallpaper
Just some

There is a ton of free wallpaper out there. Here are some you might have missed.

Art. Lebedev Posters

Digital Blasphemy

Hubble Wallpaper

Visual Paradox

Prinz Online

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Labels: Desktop

<Doug Klippert@ 2:43 AM

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