Windows 7 Themes
It's been a while since my last post, but I thought this was useful enough to share. I'm running Windows 7 64bit on a spare drive that I loaded into my macbook. I chose 64 bit because I was tired of paying for 4GB of memory that was not being fully used in Vista 32bit. I love Windows 7. It's fairly stable once I found the right drivers for my macbook and decided to install onto a new drive (actually an older WD USB drive that I caniballized and installed, but that's another story).
A new feature in Windows 7 is the ability to have a slideshow as your desktop background. You control how often the pictures change. I thought that it would be nice to be able to create my own theme. It wasn't very obvious how to do this. It is easy to do once you know how. Here are the steps with my pictures.
First, open windows explorer and browse to your Public Pictures directory. I created a new folder named "Wallpaper".
Open the new directory and copy whatever wallpaper files you'd like. I went to DeviantArt and found a few new Windows 7 wallpapers that people have created and saved them to the new folder.
Next, right click on the desktop and select "Personalize". This will display the new theme page.
On this page, you'll see an area for the desktop, windows color, sounds, and screen saver. Click on the words 'Desktop Background'. You'll be able to browse to a directory to pick pictures to be used as your background. Pick the directory that you just created.
Once the directory is selected, you'll be able to select the pictures and set some options.
Set the time to change your pictures. This is defaulted to 30 minutes but can range from 10 seconds to 1 day. You can also change the window border color, standard sounds, and screen saver. I won't go into them since they are very straight forward. You will now see a screen that allows you to save the theme.
Save the theme and you are done.
I guess I brought up a few more blog entries that I need to write about. One is how to repurpose a Western Digital drive as a new disk for your laptop. The other would be how I got Windows 7 64 bit onto the macbook. (Hint, search apple.com for bootcamp 2.1). You'll need the original OS X disk that you got with your machine.
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