web content on the desktop

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Hello,
I'm actually asking this for Win7 but I guess the same is on Vista.
Can you place some web page (or portion of it)on your desktop, like
you could do with XP (from display settings\desktop\customize\web)?
thanks

k
 
No. The sidebar replaces this feature.

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It's a shame, because with the sidebar I can only manage and display
gadgets, while before I could display real webpages - I used to have
on my desktop 4 nice pages linked to webcams on different places in
the world!
thanks

k
 
It's a shame, because with the sidebar I can only manage and display
gadgets, while before I could display real webpages - I used to have
on my desktop 4 nice pages linked to webcams on different places in
the world!
thanks

k
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I have a picture of a seminaked lady ( from a web site ) as my desktop
background .
 
karamatic said:
It's a shame, because with the sidebar I can only manage and display
gadgets, while before I could display real webpages - I used to have
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On XP and earlier versions of Windows, this ability to have web content on
the desktop was enabled by the "Active Desktop" feature. Active Desktop was
killed in Vista, because it was a mess of security loopholes which were very
difficult to fix well. As "." said, the function was replaced by Sidebar.

In Windows 7, the Vista Sidebar feature has been enhanced so that Gadgets
can run directly on the desktop, and not just in a separate sidebar. So, you
*might* be able to get this functionality back, if you can find or write a
Gadget to display your webcam pictures. I haven't actually tried this
feature in Win7 yet; but apparently it's there. The beauty of this
incarnation, over the old Active Desktop, is that the Gadgets run in a
separate, lower-privilege address space; not in your main Explorer desktop
process. So they are less of a security risk.

A piu tarde,
Andrew
 
On XP and earlier versions of Windows, this ability to have web content on
the desktop was enabled by the "Active Desktop" feature. Active Desktop was
killed in Vista, because it was a mess of security loopholes which were very
difficult to fix well. As "." said, the function was replaced by Sidebar.

In Windows 7, the Vista Sidebar feature has been enhanced so that Gadgets
can run directly on the desktop, and not just in a separate sidebar. So, you
*might* be able to get this functionality back, if you can find or write a
Gadget to display your webcam pictures. I haven't actually tried this
feature in Win7 yet; but apparently it's there. The beauty of this
incarnation, over the old Active Desktop, is that the Gadgets run in a
separate, lower-privilege address space; not in your main Explorer desktop
process. So they are less of a security risk.

A piu tarde,
Andrew
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Thanks a lot,
actually what I need, I understand, is some tool letting me transform
a webpage in a gadget! The webcams are, indeed, just simple
webpages...
Stange that something like that has'n been already made... Has it?

k
 
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