What is your decktop backround

[WilhelmSchulz.]

This is mine.
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7689/untitledpn0.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

[kiwi_2005]

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7716/desktopkr9.jpg

[Reece]

Well I am using Wallpaper Master (Free ware) & works well even when playing SHIII causes no problems, my screen is a random selection of Das Boot screen shots!:up:

[Brag]

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o207/Braguine/fsscr608.jpg

[Wilko]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l315/Quazzar1/desktop.jpg

[Brag]

Wilco --beautiful!!!!! :up:

[ichso]

Thought I would show my Gentoo Desktop, looks more clean and nicer. Windows is just for playing :D
http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/zz.jpg

[SleightOfHand]

http://pinebluff.dyndns.org/%7Ejay/background.png

There was this picture of a Siamese cat on yahoo a year or so ago, so I took the eyes. >.>

[STEED]

I just put this one on from todays action on CF3. ;)
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h254/RS42/CF3H.jpg

[XLjedi]

http://pinebluff.dyndns.org/%7Ejay/background.png

There was this picture of a Siamese cat on yahoo a year or so ago, so I took the eyes. >.>


Mine looks just like this... only without the eyes.

[java`s revenge]

This is mine. This is one of the ships my grandpa worked on in the
time before the second world war.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/hornetsting/java.jpg

[GakunGak]

This is mine, background from Crysis.....
http://imagesocket.com/view/Clipboard01a18.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb249/GakunGak/Clipboard01.jpghttp://imagesocket.com/view/Clipboard01a18.jpg

[ichso]

I'm afraid that this a horrible and huge mass of icons there. But I am also proud of you that you are able to keep track of all this :p

[GakunGak]

I used to have almost 550 icons, until I decided to keep just what I use more frequentlly....
Anyway, thank you for your feedback, I'll keep that in mind...:lol:

[johan_d]

None! to save memory, and faster work..

[GakunGak]

None! to save memory, and faster work..
How do you do that?:hmm: No wallpaper?:ping:

[Swooth]

My wallpaper is the same as my conning tower emblem,and uh...well it's in the conning tower emblem thread lol

[GakunGak]

I might as well make a switch..
Where can I find some very good SH4 wallpapers?:arrgh!:

[ichso]

Sh4 produces impressing screenshots, take a look in here. These are some things I found. Nothing surprising though, found them on subsim.com I think.

http://cip.uni-trier.de/~schmidt/sh4/

[johan_d]

None! to save memory, and faster work.. How do you do that?:hmm: No wallpaper?:ping:

just pick a color, and thats it.. no mb's to load on the screen.

[ichso]

None! to save memory, and faster work.. How do you do that?:hmm: No wallpaper?:ping:
just pick a color, and thats it.. no mb's to load on the screen.

...
These are some antique times where this would have mattered. There are other things which can make your PC's perfomance drop, and they do it rapidly. Even so many Icons on the Desktop shouldn't really matter. Don't know about that bloated Vista stuff but a Computer that runs SH3 properly shouldn't feel any big difference in using a wallpaper or not. It's a matter of preference though.

[GakunGak]

None! to save memory, and faster work.. How do you do that?:hmm: No wallpaper?:ping:
just pick a color, and thats it.. no mb's to load on the screen.
...
These are some antique times where this would have mattered. There are other things which can make your PC's perfomance drop, and they do it rapidly. Even so many Icons on the Desktop shouldn't really matter. Don't know about that bloated Vista stuff but a Computer that runs SH3 properly shouldn't feel any big difference in using a wallpaper or not. It's a matter of preference though. My desktop size is 6.92GB and my HDD is 41% fragmented and I haven't noticed any performance drop...
Maybe when KAV 7 is running on my system, but I just activate him when I suspect something or going to the Internet. For legit sites I don't even have to activate him....:know:

[kiwi_2005]

Thats alot of icons GakunGak :lol: Hell the hell you keep track, i get confused if theirs more than 20 on my desktop :rotfl:

You background picture is that taken from a game:hmm: Farcry?

[GakunGak]

Thats alot of icons GakunGak :lol: Hell the hell you keep track, i get confused if theirs more than 20 on my desktop :rotfl:

You background picture is that taken from a game:hmm: Farcry?
As I said before, I used to have almost 550, but then reduced to what I use the most.... As for the keeping track, that's easy, I know the name of the shortcut, say Microsoft Word, and I press once any icon and press M on the keyboard until I find it...
I like my PC to be functional and operational, not eye candy....
And wallpaper is from Crysis.... Consider that game Far Cry 2... Go google it...:yep:

[kiwi_2005]

I was gonna say Crysis, I hope the game is as good as it looks. AI wise.

[GakunGak]

I was gonna say Crysis, I hope the game is as good as it looks. AI wise.
Belive me, IT LOOKS GREAT!!!!
Did you see the videos?:up:

[kiwi_2005]

Yep ive watched a few over the weeks, have kept my eye on this game since i first heard about it last yr. :) I can't wait for this to come out.

[GakunGak]

You will wait, belive me, as long as If you waited for STALKER...:lol:

[kiwi_2005]

You will wait, belive me, as long as If you waited for STALKER...:lol:

Yeah i waited and waited for stalker then got it and was abit disapointed in the bugs the gun hitcount was frustrating like playing a shooter online with huge lagg you fire at point blank range pounding 50 rounds into them they slowly take aim fire one shot and your dead! :rotfl:

But I still played it out. It was enjoyable.... in a frustrating kinda way :lol:

[GakunGak]

You will wait, belive me, as long as If you waited for STALKER...:lol:
Yeah i waited and waited for stalker then got it and was abit disapointed in the bugs the gun hitcount was frustrating like playing a shooter online with huge lagg you fire at point blank range pounding 50 rounds into them they slowly take aim fire one shot and your dead! :rotfl:

But I still played it out. It was enjoyable.... in a frustrating kinda way :lol:
I am not playing it anymore, I'm back to Splinter Cell Double Agent...:ping:

[XLjedi]

@ GakunGak

An IT guy at my office was telling me that loading the desktop with icons has some sort of adverse affect on memory or something...

So now that rattles round in my head whenever I get too many icons on the desktop. I've got one "games" folder on the desktop that holds all my game icons. Honestly, I've never really noticed any difference though...

I think the most interesting part of this thread is seeing what icons others have installed!

I saw someone still had Fleet Command and Mech Commander 2 installed :up:

[GakunGak]

aaronblood, just send my desktop to your IT guy and tell him that my Desktop is 6.92 GB "heavy" and I have 17 icons in tray area, alongside with clock and my PC boots in less than a minute with 45% fragmented HDD....:yep:
Then post back and tell me his opinion....

[ReallyDedPoet]

Sh4 produces impressing screenshots, take a look in here. These are some things I found. Nothing surprising though, found them on subsim.com I think.

http://cip.uni-trier.de/~schmidt/sh4/ (http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/sh4/)

Nice one here from that site:

http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/sh4/sharkskindiving.jpg

RDP

[ichso]

Yep, that one's really cool :yep:
It's a shame that this game won't run on my machine. I think I would at first just start playing on 1x to look at the graphics XD

[Sailor Steve]

Here are some others:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=113326&highlight=desktop

And some older ones:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=98015&highlight=desktop

And some still older ones:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=96982&highlight=desktop

Of course I'm envious because I don't have any to show.:cry:

[Mush Martin]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e368/MartinPicfix/WinstonandClemmie.jpg

[STEED]

Nice One Mush our great war time leader. :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

[Mush Martin]

and the lovely Clementine too steed. Behind every good man you know.
M

[ReallyDedPoet]

and the lovely Clementine too steed. Behind every good man you know.
M

Nice pic, thought you were napping.

RDP

[KeptinCranky]

first one at work second one at home

I have to keep reminding myself: "when you see a plane press C":damn:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/omf17235/images/oof.jpg

http://home.wanadoo.nl/omf17235/images/planesheck.jpg

My windows looks just like it did when win98 first came out, I detest that rounded-off blue XP taskbar

[Growler]

My windows looks just like it did when win98 first came out, I detest that rounded-off blue XP taskbar

Don't hold back; tell us how you really feel.

(Me, too.):D

[GakunGak]

My windows looks just like it did when win98 first came out, I detest that rounded-off blue XP taskbar

Don't hold back; tell us how you really feel.

(Me, too.):D
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[johnno74]

aaronblood, just send my desktop to your IT guy and tell him that my Desktop is 6.92 GB "heavy" and I have 17 icons in tray area, alongside with clock and my PC boots in less than a minute with 45% fragmented HDD....:yep:
Then post back and tell me his opinion....

Hi Gakun (and aaronblood),

I'm an IT guy and the number of icons on your desktop would not have a measureable effect on your performance. And the actual size of the files on your desktop has absolutely no effect at all on performance :up:

Desktop wallpapers don't eat up that much memory. If your screen resolution is 1280x1024x32 then that works out to a bitmap of nearly 4mb. Not really that much when you probably have 1 or 2 gb of memory.
And also, when you are playing a game fullscreen windows is smart enough to notice nothing has used that chunk of memory for a while and the bitmap for your wallpaper will be paged out to your swapfile so the memory is freed up to be used by your game - you might notice this when you alt-tab back to your desktop or quit the game, windows has to page the wallaper back in and sometimes you may see it actually get drawn. This is a good reason to NOT disable your paging file... if you have then windows can't swap your wallpaper out to disk, meaning you effectively have 4mb less memory available for your game :yep:

[johnno74]

first one at work second one at home

I have to keep reminding myself: "when you see a plane press C":damn:


My windows looks just like it did when win98 first came out, I detest that rounded-off blue XP taskbar

Very nice pics - just snagged the top one for my desktop :D

As a side-note - have you tried the zune theme for XP? I hate the default "fisher-price" theme and never used any theme until microsoft released the zune theme. Makes me wonder why MS didn't release more themes.
Check it out. Its actually not bad :yep:
http://www.skattertech.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/windowszunetheme.png

You can download it from microsoft here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078

[GakunGak]

aaronblood, just send my desktop to your IT guy and tell him that my Desktop is 6.92 GB "heavy" and I have 17 icons in tray area, alongside with clock and my PC boots in less than a minute with 45% fragmented HDD....:yep:
Then post back and tell me his opinion....

Hi Gakun (and aaronblood),

I'm an IT guy and the number of icons on your desktop would not have a measureable effect on your performance. And the actual size of the files on your desktop has absolutely no effect at all on performance :up:

Desktop wallpapers don't eat up that much memory. If your screen resolution is 1280x1024x32 then that works out to a bitmap of nearly 4mb. Not really that much when you probably have 1 or 2 gb of memory.
And also, when you are playing a game fullscreen windows is smart enough to notice nothing has used that chunk of memory for a while and the bitmap for your wallpaper will be paged out to your swapfile so the memory is freed up to be used by your game - you might notice this when you alt-tab back to your desktop or quit the game, windows has to page the wallaper back in and sometimes you may see it actually get drawn. This is a good reason to NOT disable your paging file... if you have then windows can't swap your wallpaper out to disk, meaning you effectively have 4mb less memory available for your game :yep:
Hi johnno74, nice of you to drop by...:up:
A litle details, 1 GB of RAM, resolution 1152*864, and it's true when I alt+tab or exit a fullscreen game, my, icons need to be redrawn and wallpaper is black until is remapped again...... My wallpaper is 175KB in size, and i'm good with it...
Everything you said is true...:rock: I was testing my baby under stress and it handled itself very well...
Since you are an IT, could you solve a litle problem of mine?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=248671&messageID=2492240
Take a look and e-mail me at dj-gagi@cg.yu...
THNX for your feedback!:know:

[ichso]

Hi Gakun (and aaronblood),

I'm an IT guy and the number of icons on your desktop would not have a measureable effect on your performance. And the actual size of the files on your desktop has absolutely no effect at all on performance :up:

Desktop wallpapers don't eat up that much memory. If your screen resolution is 1280x1024x32 then that works out to a bitmap of nearly 4mb. Not really that much when you probably have 1 or 2 gb of memory.
What did I say ? But one has to call himself an IT guy to be believed in I think. Perhapts I'm one too ? ;)

[GakunGak]

Hi Gakun (and aaronblood),

I'm an IT guy and the number of icons on your desktop would not have a measureable effect on your performance. And the actual size of the files on your desktop has absolutely no effect at all on performance :up:

Desktop wallpapers don't eat up that much memory. If your screen resolution is 1280x1024x32 then that works out to a bitmap of nearly 4mb. Not really that much when you probably have 1 or 2 gb of memory.
What did I say ? But one has to call himself an IT guy to be believed in I think. Perhapts I'm one too ? ;)
What the...:doh:

[johnno74]

Hi johnno74, nice of you to drop by...:up:
A litle details, 1 GB of RAM, resolution 1152*864, and it's true when I alt+tab or exit a fullscreen game, my, icons need to be redrawn and wallpaper is black until is remapped again...... My wallpaper is 175KB in size, and i'm good with it...
Everything you said is true...:rock: I was testing my baby under stress and it handled itself very well...
Since you are an IT, could you solve a litle problem of mine?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=248671&messageID=2492240
Take a look and e-mail me at dj-gagi@cg.yu...
THNX for your feedback!:know:
Hi there GakunGak,

Although your wallpaper is 175kb, that will be for the original jpeg. Under the hood the wallaper must be converted to a BMP file, same resolution of your screen - the size of the original file doesn't matter.
Save your wallpaper as a BMP file at that resolution, it will be about 4mb.

As to your vista install problem, sorry I can't be of more help. I've never trusted OS upgrades, I always do a clean install - I've always had issues with junk left over from the previous version. That said tho, I've heard vista's upgrade is the best yet. But I still wouldn't trust it :lol:

One thing you could try is use partition magic (I see you've got it) to create another partition on your hard drive, and then copy all of your important stuff (like your SH3 installation :up:) there, then install vista from scratch and format the main windows partition during the install. Note - Be VERY careful you pick the right partition. Back up critical stuff like emails and photos, incase it all goes bad.

I'm using vista that came pre-installed on this Dell latitude d820.... So unfortunately I've never even done a vista install!
If you want to persist with the upgrade you could try un-installing the apps it is complaining about before you upgrade - the SATA drivers are a problem tho, as without those XP won't work... but vista shouldn't have a problem with those anyway.
But definitely try un-installing Cyberlink DVD player, and partition magic first, see if that helps.

[GakunGak]

johnno74, thank you for your info. I never know about wallpapers converting to BMP, I thought they stayed JPEG.... I always learn something new everyday, I guess...:lol:
As for the vista, those incompatibilities are no primary concern of mine, it's just that those drivers for my HDD cannot be found even when I'm running an update during vista setup....:doh:
Strange, as with M$ upgrade advisor, I am 100% compatible, but with setup, my HDD MAY NOT work bla bla bla...
Will wait for a SP1 then I will try again...
Thank you for your time with me, man. Ya rule!:rock:

[KeptinCranky]

My windows looks just like it did when win98 first came out, I detest that rounded-off blue XP taskbar
Don't hold back; tell us how you really feel.

(Me, too.):D

Well I'm cranky for a reason :rotfl:
and not just because I'm a postal worker :D
Microsofts excremental ejectamenta are one of my primary peeves

and Planes of course:damn:

[Hakahura]

After locking herself out of yet another website I changed our desktop background to this.....

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1725/desk1vf9.jpg

[Canovaro]

This is mine, background from Crysis.....
http://imagesocket.com/view/Clipboard01a18.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb249/GakunGak/Clipboard01.jpghttp://imagesocket.com/view/Clipboard01a18.jpg




Just one word:

Ctrl+A, Enter

:lol:

[GakunGak]

@Canovaro: :rotfl:
Been there, done that...:lol:

[Reece]

Ok this is one of my desktops, my fun machine when I'm on shore leave, an 87 K100RT!:smug:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Desktop2.jpg

[Gildor]

Sh4 produces impressing screenshots, take a look in here. These are some things I found. Nothing surprising though, found them on subsim.com I think.

http://cip.uni-trier.de/~schmidt/sh4/ (http://cip.uni-trier.de/%7Eschmidt/sh4/)


I am flattered that you kept one of mine. Your sunsetly8.jpg is one of the first screenshots I took when I got SH4.

Glad you enjoy it.