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Questions tagged [desktop-customization]

Tweaking the look and feel of the operating system's desktop. All OSes welcome.

This tag marks questions about how to adjust the appearance or functionality of the graphical desktop provided by your operating system. Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, and many other operating systems provide a desktop as the primary user-interface shell, so personalization can significantly improve productivity.

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How can I set the live video feed from the ISS as my desktop background?

NASA have recently started doing a live broadcast of the view from the ISS (if it's black, the ISS is over the night side of the Earth). http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ How can I set this broadcast (or better, somehow obtain a periodic screen-cap of…
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List/Record of Online Photos Used - John's Background Switcher

Regarding the program John's Background Switcher, where can I find links to or a record of all the pictures automatically selected and then used as the desktop background, such as those taken from Flickr? My goal is to find the original links of…
user269574
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Where in the Win7 registry is the wallpaper slideshow folder?

I want to schedule a .bat file to change the location of the wallpaper slideshow folder every evening (so I can use a folder of 'night' images at night). I can only find the registry location of the current wallpaper, but not the location of the…
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Restriction for wallpaper on windows 7 starter

I am using windows 7 starter and i am unable to set my desktop background and when i right click on the wallpaper it does not show any option for 'set as desktop background' any help will be appreciated.
user421696
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Looking for a past Wallpaper on windows 7

I had a wallpaper on my computer but there was never a saved location for it it may have been transferred by usb or something because I cannot find it anywhere, is there a way to get a log of the names of past wallpapers or a folder of past…
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Undo Show Desktop on Mac Pro OS 10.10

I did the thumb/three finger swipe to move all the open windows to the borders. However, I cannot undo this action! All my windows are on the borders, some of which I cannot even grab. F11 does NOT work. Command D does NOT work. What DOES…
Doug
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Preview image on desktop without frame

I am on a windows 7 machine. My image is a png with a transparent background. What I would like to do is show the image on my desktop without a frame. (preview, paint, browser). Not to say that any program is out just I do not want the widows…
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