Can you make a web page your user picture?

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I know you can use one of the default pictures that come with XP, and that
you can download a snapshot from your digital camera to your PC & use that
picture, but can you use a webpage as your user account picture? If so, how
do you do it?
Many thanks~~

DB
 
I know you can use one of the default pictures that come with XP, and that
you can download a snapshot from your digital camera to your PC & use that
picture, but can you use a webpage as your user account picture? If so, how
do you do it?
Many thanks~~

DB
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Well, you could but don't how it would turn out and there would be no
active links in that web page image...

Take a screenshot of the page and save it as a JPG. Use the "change
picture" dialog by double clicking your current user picture in start menu
or use Control Panel> Users> Accounts> Change Picture. There is a "Browse
for more pictures" link in that window. Click it and use the next screen to
navigate to the saved JPG. Select it. Windows will resample the image to a
size that is suitable for using as a user icon (48x48 pixels, I believe),
leaving the original image intact.

To take a screenshot: Open the web page. Press Alt+Print Screen to take a
screenshot of the active window (browser with web page loaded). Then open a
program capable of accepting image data such as Paint. Edit> Paste. File>
Save As. Name the file and select JPG under Save as Type. NOTE: If the
program has picture editing features - resizing, cropping - use them to
edit the captured image to something pleasing. Suggest working from the
original capture and saving the edited results using a different name. Also
you don't need to worry about resizing too much. As mentioned before,
Windows will do that for you when you select the image as a user icon.

I don't know what you're trying to accomplish but maybe adding the page
(www.whatever.html) under Display> Desktop> Advanced> Web is something that
you should explore. This is entirely different than what you asked about
but it would put live links on your desktop (live if connected to the
internet).
 
Hi Sharon--

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. By following your directions I was
able to do just what I wanted!
And after experimenting a bit, I discovered it's even easier than you
described (which was pretty easy in its own right). What I wanted was not the
entire page per se, but one image on it. So by R-clicking on the image and
selecting 'save picture as' from the drop-down menu, I was able to save the
image to the My Pictures file. From there, the rest was easy.
Thanks again for all your help!

DB
 
Hi Sharon--

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. By following your directions I was
able to do just what I wanted!
And after experimenting a bit, I discovered it's even easier than you
described (which was pretty easy in its own right). What I wanted was not the
entire page per se, but one image on it. So by R-clicking on the image and
selecting 'save picture as' from the drop-down menu, I was able to save the
image to the My Pictures file. From there, the rest was easy.
Thanks again for all your help!
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You're welcome and am glad to hear that you achieved the result that you
were after.
 
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