SCREEN SAVER AS A DESKTOP BACKGROUND | DESKTOP SCREEN SAVER

You want to set the “Ribbons” screensaver as a background to pep up your Windows desktop during a presentation. Windows however doesn't allow this at all. Can it still work?

It works! And it's quite simple to do: Open “Start | All programs | Accessories | Command Prompt”. Using the “cd“ (change directory) command, change to the "system32" folder within the Windows installation directory. Type the command ribbons.scr /p65552 and confrm it with [Enter].The screen saver appears immediately as an eye-catching desktop background. All icons however disappear and the right mouse key is rendered ineffective with Vista. This is the price you pay for a peppy background. On the other hand, this has an advantage since nobody can see the icons that you have stored on your desktop—especially interesting for presentations or training programs. You can use most of the Windows screensavers as desktop backgrounds thanks to the “/p65552” parameter.To terminate the animated desktop, open the Task Manager with [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] and click on the process with the same name. Select the relevant entry, “ribbon” in our example, in the “Applications” tab and click “End task”. A restart also stops the screensaver.You can also start the animated background by using a batch fle—this is particularly helpful if it is to be used frequently and saves you from working with the archaic command prompt.