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How to: How do I extract a background from a Windows 7 Theme file? #fix #answer #computers

How do I extract a background from a Windows 7 Theme file?

Pretty obvious, How do I extract a background from a Windows 7 Theme file?

I like the background pics from some of the themes I’ve downloaded, but is there anyway I can get the pictures (background images) by themselves?

Answer [by Sim]: How do I extract a background from a Windows 7 Theme file?

In the Personalization Control Panel save…

Resolved: Android Live Wallpapers for Windows 7? #answer #computers #fix

Android Live Wallpapers for Windows 7?

Is it possible to have Android live wallpapers on Windows 7?

Answer [by MrStatic]: Android Live Wallpapers for Windows 7?

What you are looking for is called ‘Dreamscene’. It used to be a part of windows but was later turned off. There are several websites that offer little applications for free to turn it back on. Then you can set any video that Windows…

Answer: Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7 #programming #dev #computers

Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7

I have an animated .gif I created using Photoshop CS4, but I can’t get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer.

How can I set an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7?

Answer [by Ixobelle]: Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background…

Fix: How do I change the wallpaper of Windows 7 Starter Edition? #solution #development #answer

How do I change the wallpaper of Windows 7 Starter Edition?

Is there a way to change the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition? I wanted to do that on my new netbook, just to find out that there is no “Customize” option in the control panel. Microsoft obviously wants to keep the netbook users rather rigidly from customizing their machines.

It isn’t even possible to edit the picture…

Fix: How do I get different background images on my dual monitors? #computers #programming #solution

How do I get different background images on my dual monitors?

Is there a way to set two different background pictures for my two monitors in Windows 7?

By default the same background picture is used for both displays. I am looking for a solution without installing extra software.

Answer [by Kamil Zadora]: How do I get different background images on my dual monitors?

Not out of the box, but Disp…

How-to: Tool to put text on desktop wallpaper #computers #dev #answer

Tool to put text on desktop wallpaper

I’d like to put a list of keyboard shortcuts I want to learn on my desktop wallpaper so I can show and hide it quickly by pressing Win+D.

I’ll want to be changing the list quite frequently as I remove ones that I’ve learnt and add new ones, so I don’t want something that takes too long to make changes.

What tools are there to do this?

Followup: For the…

Answer: Windows 7 dual monitor setup: Wallpaper alignment #dev #computers #answer

Windows 7 dual monitor setup: Wallpaper alignment

I have the following dual-screen set up on my Windows 7 PC: [2][1], that means my secondary monitor is on the left side of my primary monitor.

Now I have a dual-screen wallpaper that should stretch across the monitors. I have set it to “Tile” mode.

Problem: The wallpaper invariably starts at [1] (left edge of the image being on the left edge of […

Solution: How do I set the desktop background on Windows from a script? #fix #answer #programming

How do I set the desktop background on Windows from a script?

On X Windows I had a cool ‘silent-alarm” reminder script that would change my root window (background) color to solid red, just for a few seconds a few moments before changing it back. Is there a way to do this for Windows XP?

I’m thinking some kind of scheduled task that uses cscript to set registry keys (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control…