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Here is my current Desk Top image.

This is my cat, the one that passed away in 2004.

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My desktop is boring. You don't want to see it.

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I down-sized my desktop to 800x600...

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Here's my desktop. Nothing special, the star background is my own custom starfield for Space Empires.

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well, I have been switching back and forth between these two desktops for the last few weeks cause I can't decide which I like best.

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second desktop

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This is my current desktop...

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How do you find anything in that thing?

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I couldn't resist, here's my desktop.

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You have SEV ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gifhttp://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

My desktop is so boring. I just use the standard Windows "Prairie Wind" background.

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Here's mine. Cluttered, needs a cleaning.

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Renegade: Nah, it's not cluttered till you have to delete or move stuff before you can put something on the desktop. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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So SE5 FINALLY got a new icon... That old one has been in use since SE2, ya know? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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My desktop. That of a Freespace fanatic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Had to shrink mine 'cause I run 2 19's as my desktop at work. It basically only has a 3D image of "Staci", a cartoonish female mesh I bought to render with ('cause I liked her long stringy look).

Fyron, good thing you shrank yours, too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.

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Fyron,All I see is a black box. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Here is my desktop.

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Now, that's a nice desktop !

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I have no sense whatsoever of esthetics, and do most things through the arboresence or a command line. So, everything is default, with a silly terminal thrown in for good measure and most programs hidden elsewhere.

At least you were sparred the "real" console, since I couldn't figure out how to take a screenshot without hitting *any* important key (and Print Screen didn't work).

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OK, I give up, what IS that app you use for your desktop?

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Here's mine at work.

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"Bite Me?" LOL

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Hey, I'm just a minimalist... not as bad as Fyron though.

The grey at the bottom is the taskbar, hidden. The blue at the left is Trillian, hidden. I had originally had some different icons and such, but I reinstalled Win2k at the end of summer when I got a new SATA hard drive (it was originally on a PATA drive).

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Where do you guys get these cool looking desktops? Mine's just WinXP with the Classic theme and the sunset pic for background..

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I had too much spare time one day.

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Narf POST your Desk top.

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Didn't think that anyone would be that interested, but ok.

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Hmm...Didn't like that one...

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Looks like the desktop of an organized and calculating mind with a nice photo touch to add a certain amount of serenity to one's piece of mind.

SO...how'd you wind up with it??? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

(j/k)

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Ragnarok said:
Here is my desktop.

Hmm... I found aston shell to be really unstable and glitchy. Definitely not something I'd pay for. Hope you've had better luck with it!

(also cover's Slynky's question. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)

AdmiralMartin said:
Fyron,All I see is a black box. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

That would be it. Of course... I could unhide some stuff, I guess... Its only 20.2 kb, and I didn't resize it, since text would become unreadable. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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So, that's what it is? I was curious. My boss, nearly as knowledgeable as you looked into Lightstep (?) and Darkstep (?) and had stability problems with them. Then there are just skins which, won't do all that Rags has.

I'd like to get something like what Rags has but stability is important. Looking forward to hearing from him.

But, I like the organizational ability of it much better than icons and quicklaunch.

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Oh, just wait. I've had icons covering the entire screen before.

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I've had much success with bblean (which you can see a bit of in my edited post below), which you can use to build fancy extensible dock/wharf "menus" like that. You can use icons or text labels, AFAIK. You could in theory make it look all shiny and fancy like the aston shell one, but I don't know if anyone has made such things for the blackbox shells. They are meant to not be glitzy, afterall. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Oh, THANKS for the info. I'll check out that one as well. the dock/wharf "menus" as you call them are nice ways to organize things. "Beauty" is an extra cherry on top just to make others envioius (always a plus...LOL).

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You'll want to look into the BBInterface plugin. There might be a more specialized plugin for what you want, but I am not sure.

If you want a quick launch bar, BBIconBox is the easiest way. You can also use this to simulate the "desktop," by creating a box linked to the desktop folder (or any arbitrary folder). If you want to make it bigger than 12 rows/columns, you have to edit the settings file for the plugin. For some reason the menu-based selection is limited to 12.

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Note that when I said instability issues with aston shell, it was the shell process itself crashing; it never took out Windows itself and could be restarted by the task manager.

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Hmmm, to completely cover my desktop in icons would take......

228 icons, wow...

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Thanks LOADS for the info! I'll check it out.

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I found a good base "wharf" script for BBInterface here:

http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bladestaylor/bbi/

Not sure what "layered" is yet, but the wharf.zip looks promising.

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$#@%&%$&%#$@&%(#@% !!!!!

Wanted to post MINE here, but can't figure how you do it ???

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon49.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bullets.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Lightning.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Hammer.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Grenade.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/skull.gif

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Do a reply (in the info bar of any post) instead of the quick reply, then right above the continue button is a check box that says "I want to preview my post and/or attach a file" then just point it to the file on your comp you want to attach.

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Slynky/Fyron,

I just thought I'd post real quick about Aston. I have been running Aston for about 2 years now and haven't had any major problems. I think in the two years that I have been running it, I have had the process die on me twice. It is an easy fix though, just go into the CMD promt, navigate to the aston directory and type in aston.exe to fire it right back up. Beyond that it has been a great app.

I have changed the theme several times. I like the one I posted the best. I love the fly-out menus on the left and right-hand of the screen.

I guess Aston is much like any other application. Works excellent for some, for others it is horrible. Either way, I hope you (Slynky) find something that suits what you are looking for.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Anyone can make changes to the way the desktop looks. All you need to do is hack the explorer.exe file and change the settings. It’s a binary, so it’s easy to unpack and edit. Just copy and rename it, open and edit the copy, save it with the new name. Then go to the registry and change the key to reflect the new file name.

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True, but how many average computer users will know how to do something like that? Most people don't even know what explorer.exe is. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif So typically only your advanced users will attempt to hack an .exe and then edit the registry; which I do on a regular basis.

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These guys around here cand write mods, so i would think that they can hack a binary.

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Uhm, you would be incorrect. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

SE4 mods are text files and bitmaps. Nowhere near the same as hacking a binary. Especially explorer.exe and expecting it not to make Windohs more of a doh-fest than it already is...

(edit: Well, if you just want to change a text string, maybe, but even that can mess things up if you want to increase its length and there wasn't enough padding in the original binary.)

PvK

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Thermo, I love your "BiteMe" button.

Is GLINDA a link to the share at MS Studios?

PvK

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It's a hell of a lot easier to just use a better shell that is designed to be configurable than to go through the hassle of hacking the binary...

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I have only read the first few posts here and the first few attachments.

Atrocities, You are a B****RD, I HATE YOU, YOU ***KING ****

Sorry, I know you did not do it to spite me, but I hate the fact you have a icon called SEV! I hate you so much right now... I am so bored, and I can not tell you how much I want to play SEV!

I warn anyone with a working SEV copy, if I ever find out where you live, I will nick your computers so I can play!

That being said, atrocities, nice pussy on your desktop!

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No, it's a shortcut to one of the servers in the citrix farm. Back when, we had 7 servers in the farm and all were named after things from OZ. And the domain was OZ. Now we have just two and I seldom even go onto that server anymore. I think there are perhaps 6 VPN users that still use citrix. And that's only because they work on systems that belong to other gov. agencies.

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What hassle? Open a program-type in the target and click a button. As to being better, that's probably true. We make some changes to explorer to limit what people can do to screw up the systems, but it doesn't change what they see.