Help. New Computer. Windows 7. Dear God, Somebody Kill Me.

[capnhowdy]

I'm still running XP. And will continue to do so.

...music playing....

"Almost cut my hair
it happened just the other day....."

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, XP works fine, plus I've made so many little tweaks over the years, it's real comfy. Since I'm not even eligible to take the test, I'd rather just be using it, than playing with it. Mostly because it's more work than play, for me.

A friends Dell PC got virus constipated, and it took me weeks to straighten it out. Of course I only could work on it one day a week, and it was a steep learning curve, but it was fucking work, not fun.

[SamIam]

I have Windows Vista (Basic). I dislike it, but not enough to try to mess with it much. Frankly, I still long for DOS.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Frankly, I still long for DOS.

Why you old fart, do you yell at the kids to get off your lawn?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What were you using before?

XP sp3

Originally Posted by dar512

That's why they call it a context menu. What's in the menu changes depending on the context.

I don't have 7, digger. But try something like this:

- Open the display properties dialog (right-click on the desktop and choose Properties)
- Click the desktop tab
- Click on the Customize Desktop button.
- Click on the web tab.
- Try loading your animated gif from here.

That section is to allow you to use a web page as your background. Maybe it will work for your animated gif.

Thanks for the advice, Dar, but 7 goes about that differently, and has different menus/dialogs. Tried 7's version of something like that though, no joy.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

What UT said. WTF do you want an animated desktop for?

'Cause I fucking like 'em, that's WTF for. I use a pointing hand and a pointing monkey to alert Mother Dearest to things she might be interested in, and I have a pair of blinking yellow cat eyes, just cuzz they're cool.

Originally Posted by regular.joe

I'll stick with my MAC BookPro. The price is worth the lack of aggravation. I will admit I do have Windows Vista Ultimate installed on bootcamp, only because the Army in its infinite wisdom refuses to acknowledge that Soldiers use Mac OS. So every now and then, probably once in 60 days, I log into bootcamp to take care of something there. As soon as I learn a bit more about scripting my own commands in terminal, this wills stop as well. Oh yea, there are no Windows PC in my household....wife uses a Macbook, and I have an IMac desktop that my boy uses for homework and games.

I have zero income right now, and not enough for an Apple when I have an income, so, Apples are out, as much as I'd like to try one

[Pie]

Try this, Digger.

Originally Posted by MyDigitalLife

Windows DreamScene, a feature which allows a video clip, movie show, slideshow or animated image and picture to be set as the desktop background in Windows Vista has been removed in Windows 7, in favor of Desktop Slideshow wallpaper auto rotator. Although Windows 7 no longer supports DreamScane, the DreamScene function can still be manually added and installed into Windows 7 with a little hack in order to turn on and enable the DreamScene support in Windows7.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Pie

Try this, Digger.

Thanks, Pie!! This looks like it just might do the trick. I'm not too wild about doing things to my brand new registry, but, I guess that's what warranties are for, right? Gonna look at this more, but, so far, I like it! Thanks again.

[ZenGum]

:awards Pie ten bonus whiteandnerdy points:

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

:awards Pie ten bonus whiteandnerdy points:

Hope they don't catch her white and nerdy...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6eswhgOKk

[ZenGum]

Psst .... http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=21405

[Gravdigr]

Oh.

[Tulip]

I must not use laptop enough because it came with Windows 7 and I have not problem with hit so far. Didn't even notice the different menus/dialogs. :p Must play with Windows Media player tomorrow too.