I want to make a web page my wallpaper

Does anyone know how to set a web page as a wallpaper, just like in the days of Windows XP? There must be a way to do this. Thanks in advance,

Rockworthy

HMM, haven't answered anything like this before.

Well I guess you could use a screen capture program of the whole page and open up a graphics program and choose paste. I'm pretty sure you don't want the IE interface included.

then save the file as a .jpg.

I don't think I took a webpage, specifically, as a wallpaper, but I played around with several different sets of pictures in one of the builds between 7000 and 7100. You can use any of 3 or 4 picture formats (.jpg, .png, .tiff, and probably .gif). I am not on my Windows 7 computer right now and I forget the exact steps. Just go where you setup the desktop etc. and prowl around and you will see how to add photos to the desktop and make them rotate. You can add as many different pictures as you want and then set how often they rotate and whether they rotate in order or randomly and how they transition from one to the other. Real neat feature. (edit): This makes your desktop wallpaper act very similar to a screen saver.

I'm sure that if you just do as reghakr says and take a screen capture and save it as .jpg, you can use 'bout anything you want to use as wallpaper. Setting up all that sort of stuff gets quite time consuming and I plan to wait until I have a permanent copy of the OS before I spend gobs more time customizing.

Originally Posted by reghakr

HMM, haven't answered anything like this before.

Well I guess you could use a screen capture program of the whole page and open up a graphics program and choose paste. I'm pretty sure you don't want the IE interface included.

then save the file as a .jpg.

i'm sorry, but i have the same problem.
what if someone needs a small portion of his desktop to be an active web page? not a picture of a page, but a real page with scripts? for example, a html calendar? or notes with links in it? or a webcam picture?
i had html parts on my desktop background under xp for many years now. i never thought that they gonna take away that possibility in later versions.

Looking in Help and support for Active Desktop revealed nothing.

I checked my XP machine and there are extra files in the C:\windows\web folder to make Active Desktop work.

So, I believe the last version was XP that offered that option.

As far as I know. They removed Active Desktop as it was deemed to be a security risk.

I wouldn't doubt that a bit.

And it crashed often and sucked resources.

I have not tried this, I just spotted it. Go to Download.com and look at the application called "InternetScrap 2.40". It is presented as a program that will capture an entire web page as a .jpg file. You could then use that .jpg file as a desktop wallpaper. Understand I have not tried it, so I cannot vouch for it; I'm just relaying information from Download.com.

Originally Posted by reghakr

And it crashed often and sucked resources.

i'm pretty sure gadgets take way more resources than active desktop did.

Originally Posted by john3347

I have not tried this, I just spotted it. Go to Download.com and look at the application called "InternetScrap 2.40". It is presented as a program that will capture an entire web page as a .jpg file. You could then use that .jpg file as a desktop wallpaper. Understand I have not tried it, so I cannot vouch for it; I'm just relaying information from Download.com.

will the links work in it?