Chapter 7. Customizing and Improving Your Desktop
This chapter contains a potpourri of desktop-management tips and procedures that improve the way you use the Windows environment. You can activate your desktop with the Windows Active Desktop feature. Place web pages and other files directly on your desktop to customize your Windows wallpaper.
Wallpaper acts like the background of your desktop, like the mountains and clouds that appear there by default. You’ll learn how to use a web page for your desktop wallpaper, but understand that the most common files to use for Windows wallpaper are .BMP or Windows Bitmap graphics files, usually found in the Windows folder (although you may have created some of your own or downloaded others from the Internet). ...
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