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
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).
