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'''Active Desktop''' is a feature built into the [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating system]] since [[Windows 95]] that allows users to display interactive content, such as [[web pages]], as their [[desktop wallpaper]]. | '''Active Desktop''' is a feature built into the [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating system]] since [[Windows 95]] that allows users to display interactive content, such as [[web pages]], as their [[desktop wallpaper]]. | ||
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==Configuring== | ==Configuring== | ||
| − | Windows users can use the | + | Windows users can use the 鶹Ƶ Active Desktop on their office or personal machines. |
# Right-click on the desktop and select '''Properties'''. | # Right-click on the desktop and select '''Properties'''. | ||
# Click the '''Desktop Tab'''. | # Click the '''Desktop Tab'''. | ||
Revision as of 12:01, 8 July 2008
Active Desktop is a feature built into the Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 95 that allows users to display interactive content, such as web pages, as their desktop wallpaper.
Configuring
Windows users can use the 鶹Ƶ Active Desktop on their office or personal machines.
- Right-click on the desktop and select Properties.
- Click the Desktop Tab.
- Click the Customize button.
- Click the Web Tab
- Click New
- Enter http://www.gustavus.edu/labs in the location field, click OK.
- With the http://www.gustavus.edu/labs selected, click the Properties button and select the Schedule tab.
- Set the Sychronization time to a time that makes sense for your computer usage - Select My Scheduled Update, select the Schedule tab and pick a time.
- To make the active desktop fill the whole screen - hover your mouse over the upper right had corner of the image - a menu will appear allowing you to select a layout for the desktop.
