falling rain said:
It's a shame our my company's IT People have disenabled the setting of wallpaper backgrounds. We have to have the corporate wallpaper
......... Small things like that are what really bug me... It's not necessary... What's wrong with a beautiful picture as wallpaper ? No one is getting hurt by it ?
Sadly in this money oriented society they can be
I work for a large IT compnay and we regularly get letters from companies telling us to remove images which they regard as their copyrighted material.
I don't know of any cases that have actually come to court in this country but most large corporates avoid the possiblity by locking down the desktop.
However are you any good at HTML? If so design a webpage with href links to replace all your normal desktop icons then fire it up in your browser and work from that. Include a link back to your desktop so you can access your files in window and you may need never look at you old company one for more than a few seconds when you start up
Here is my old one which I have modified to use pretty standard windows programmes, of course once you get into it there is no limit as to what you can do, one of mine was so bit it scrolled down three pages which is something you can't easily do in windows (yet!) without messing about with the graphics settings.
<html>
<body background="c:\windows\Greenstone.bmp">
<a href="c:\windows\explorer.exe" target="new">Explorer</a>
<p>
<a href="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\EXCEL.EXE" target="new">Excel</a>
<p>
<a href="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE" target="new">Word</a>
<p>
<a href="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" target="new">Outlook</a>
<p>
<p>
<a href="e:\" target="new">E: Drive</a>
<p>
<a href="m:\zdr\camp\" target="new">Camp Info</a>
</body>
</html>
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