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      01-01-2009
Larry Dighera <> wrote:
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> It's easy to display a web page on the WinXP desktop:
>
> Right click on the desktop and select Properties
> Click the Desktop tab
> Click the Customize Desktop button
> Click the Web tab
> Click the New button, and enter the URL
>
> However, I'm unable to find a similar facility in WinVista64.
>
> How can I do this on my Vista desktop? I have a security web-cam that
> I like to keep an eye on while I'm working at the computer.
>
> Any instructions on how to accomplish this, pointers to same, or clues
> would be most appreciated. TIA


Not tried this myself:

http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/vista/avedesktopsites.html

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      01-02-2009
Larry Dighera <> wrote:
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> It is thoughtful and knowledgeable members of the Usenet community
> like yourself that make Usenet the valuable resource that it has been
> for the last 25 years that I have been active.


^^^^That's the best thing I have read in this newsgroup in ages. I'd like
to see more if this sort of thing.

I am surprised at your top-posting though, being an old-timer, as that was
hardly ever seen or tolerated until the later '90s, and it is still only
very common on these Microsoft newsgroups.

> Thank you very much
> for your assistance.


You are welcome.

> Here is a little more information about this topic:
>
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...success-active
> -desktop-replacement-for-vista/ How-To Geek Bounty Program, where we
> sponsor software projects based on ideas suggested by the readers.
>
> Here's a message posted on the above page:
>
> Lantom
> Unfortunately, this program didn't work here on vista.
> However, I've found an, in my opinion, better solution for this:
> Serious Samurize in combination with the minibrowser plugin. You
> can find it here: http://www.samurize.com/
>
> This is easier to configure in my opinion and it's 'active': you
> can click links etc as if you're using a browser. Also, as for
> performance, it only uses (with minibrowser loaded) about 20mb ram
> and about 2% of my cpu (intel E6600).
>
>
> Serious Samurize is available here:
> http://www.samurize.com/modules/mydo...cid=1&lid=2074
>




Thanks for the information. That does look like it could be quite useful to
me, and I never used Active Desktop.

Cheers

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