Make your own desktop Wallpaper

.: Crash Desktop

We all want our Desktop to be Unique. ¿But how can we make our Wallpaper unique? If we download it from the Web it just will be like any other. So here comes the way to make the background you've got from the web look like no other.

This walkthrough will tell you how to make yourself a "Crash Wallpaper", a background that will remind us that our computers are not perfect (they're far from that). It'll also make our PC look like a Hollywood movie hacking machine, with a desktop filled with windows and most of them displaying error windows (like Nedry's computer in Jurassic park ;-) ).

Everything we'll need for this is our copy of Windows and the programs preinstalled (aka Paint).

Ok, so now everything is ready to go, let's get it started!

Let's start with our desktop. As you can see mine is filled with Icons (and I thought I just had it cleaned up) and the Task Bar. AS anyone can see I already have a image as background, you can choose to use one or not to follow the tutorial, you can keep it or leave it.

Now we'll open some windows to fill our desktop and generate some beautiful errors to make it look like we're doing some crazy stuff on it. Here are some examples:

• Simbolo del sistema: terminal windows are always great to make crash wallpapers, they look like we're doing expert tasks. Open command prompt by clicking on the start button and clicking on "Run...", in the next window type "cmd" and hit enter. Now you can type some commands into the terminal.
  For example, write "cd C:\Windows" and then "dir", the list of files in the Windows will appear (they're quite a lot) and then you can write some kind of authoring (something like "made by ..."), when you type that into the window a error will come back saying that made is not a valid command, but it's Ok.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Calculator: now you'll ask yourself, ¿Calculator gives back errors? Yes, open it and type "5/0", hit Enter. You'll get the test from the image: "Cannot divide by zero".
  
  
•  Notepad: yes, you can use Notepad to make some interesting things. Open it and write something into it (you can also write "made by..." here, or you can open some other kind of file like an exe or a image resulting into many crazy simbols, changing it a little bit), when ready do NOT save, Open Task Manager by hitting "Ctrl+Alt+Del", select the tab"Applications" or "Tasks" and choose Notepad (probably called "Untitled1" or something like that) on the list. And click on "End Task", if nothing happens click it repeatedly until a Notepad window comes up asking if you want to save or not, ignore it, contnue clicking on the End Task button till a program not responding message comes up saying that Notepad is nt doing as asked. Position the windows you get as you want, but do not click on any button of the notepad or End task window because the effect wil vanish.
  
  
• Google Sidebar: I don't have google search installed on this pc but if you have, press Ctrl twice, a search message will come up.
  
  
• Open some more windows to fill the gaps. Try to keep the error messages on top, that creates the sensation that all windows beneath are errors too, that'll make our effect a bit strong. Try too keep the Close, Maximize and Minimize buttons of our Windows visible, it'll make the senstaion of more windows and it will drive people crazy that tend to keep order on their systems.
  
  
• Avoid using applications that refresh. For example, a stopped clock would look weird, or a Facebook that never updates.
  
  
• Some last but not least thing. NO windows shall cover an icon that cannot be moved, that'll ruin our Wallpaper. Nobody displays icons on top of a calculator.
  

Once you have all the windows arrange them as you like. Try not to arrange them to tidy, resize them and make it look as if you're crazy. If you've already got a wallpaper you may don't want to cover some parts of it, don't make it to obvious though... arrange them them Your Way and when they're ready leave them as wanted.

Now your desktop will look something like that:

Now we want to set that as a Background, once your windows are in the correct way avoid touching them.

Now we'll head for the less artistic part. If you have a close look you'll see that if we freeze the screen now Desktop icons and Taskbar will appear too, that will make really weird effects, so let's get rid of them for a minute.

Make sure no window is on top of an icon. Right click on one of the fex empty spaces of our desktop. And choose Arrange Icons by > Disable Show Desktop Ions (as in the image below). It may make your PC load for a little while.

Now we've got rid of the Icons we can see the background, and what's way more important, they won't appear on our final product.

Anyway, there might be very clean people that always keep the same icons on the screen, but hate it when for some reason they disarrange (who hasn't already suffered spending days uncomfortable with your PC because it just isn't right!) and they never find their perfect place again. If you are one of this people you can leave the icons on screen to fast get them to their original positions.

Now our desktop is empty (but for the windows that are still there).Now it's the Taskbar's turn to make place for pure catastrophe.

Send the TaskBar on holiday by right clicking on a empty space on it (nothing easy because it'll be really full by now, if you don't get to click anywhere you can also right click the Start Menu button) and choose properties.

On the following window choose "TaskBar" and activate "Auto.Hide the taskbar". Now click Ok and the taskbar will disappear after a few seconds.













Ok, what now is left on screen is our future Wallpaper, and it should look a little like this:

TIP: If you take a close look you will see that maybe some of your windows will have got on top of others, like in this image the Character Map.

If your screen lokks like this one you're on the right way. If there are still icons or the Taskbar somethings going wrong (the taskbar doesn't hide if there are info bubbles).

Now we come to the important moment, hit Control (CTRL) y and the PrintScreen key (PrtScr). don't close the Windows (just in case something went wrong). Open "Paint" (Start > All Program > Accesoires > Paint) and hit CTRL + V ( Edit > Paste) and your new Wallpaper should appear (if it doesn't close paint and repeat this step).

Chack everything is right on the picture and save (it sounds stupid, but save somewhere you can find it later)and close Paint. If you like how your image came out you can close the errors.

Your desktop must now seem extremely empty. Don't worry, but let's finish what we were doing. Restore the icons the same way you removed them and disable the taskbar autohide.

So now we have our desktop as it was, clcik on a empty space and choose "Properties" go to the "Desktop" tab  and click on "Browse" and choose the image  apply, and after 10 minutes your desktop will be ready!

Now every boot up will display the chaos we've created!










The result:

(Look at the Notepad what happens if you leave icons where they shouldn't)

Enjoy your desktop!