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Windows 95/98
Secrets to a
More Beautiful Desktop
OK - a
beautiful desktop isn't just for couch potatoes. A nice
desktop can sometimes effect your working mood. We have a
couple of tips to help your desktop stay forever "beautiful
& young".
Get Nice
Wallpaper
"Sure", you
say. Who doesn't have a good wallpaper? You have Plus! and
all the wallpapers are cool enough. If you like cartoons,
Plus98! themes should keep you contented. But if you want
some awesome and stunning artwork, you haven't seen anything
yet. We found out that some art gallery sites such as
Digital Blasphemy, offers breath-taking 3D rendered artworks
for wallpapers. We guarantee once you get a few of them on
your desktop, you won't want to switch back to your old
wallpapers ever again.
Remember that
a nice wallpaper can eat up to a gigantic 3-5 megabytes.
This will consume a lot of system resources. If you have a
graphic conversion program, convert it to JPEG or GIF. This
will compress up to 10 times the original size and won't
suffer quality loss.
Less Clutter,
More Space (And Speed Too!)
A very
cluttered desktop makes things hard to find and might even
cloud a beautiful wallpaper. Our advice - only the most
important icons should stay on the desktop. The rest must
go. And also remember that the less active desktop
components are there, the better because they can cause the
desktop to be complicated and slow. You will find that a
clean desktop will look very neat and the refresh and
startup loading rate will be much faster because there are
less items now.
Don't Let
Icons Get In The Way
Icons are just
companions to the desktop. Don't let icons effect the
desktop. As we said, if you want to preserve the beauty of a
wallpaper and you think icons are getting in the way, use
our icon creating guide to create a transparent icon. The
using the Display Properties, set My Computer, Network
Neighborhood and Recycle Bin to the same transparent icon.
Change the Desktop text to suit the wallpaper. That way,
only the text will show up and blend nicely with the
wallpaper.
More
Multimedia On The Desktop
If you are
quite experienced in HTML, DHTML or some programming code
but never put them into good use, now is the time to show
them off. You can add ActiveX pop-up menus, HTML hyperlinks,
maybe a song list, or anything that your imagination can
think of but it will be in a HTML file. Note that you must
enable your desktop as webpage to display HTML files.
Tip: Don't
think that your wallpaper will have to go if you use HTML
files - you can still display them by using them as a HTML
file background image.
If You Don't
Need It, Don't Use It
If you don't need the active desktop,
you can't disable your desktop as web page. All you need to
do is to right-click the desktop, select
Active Desktop
and check off
View As Web Page. You will
find that it will speed up the desktop dramatically.
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