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Wizards of the Coast released three tempting wallpaper images for Monster Manual II at the start of August 2002. You can find them here. They each come in three different sizes and picking the right size for your screen is easy. The tricky part is working out whether you want the Death Knight/Undead wallpaper, the Loxo/Crimson Death wallpaper or the Deathbringer wallpaper. (No prizes for spotting the death theme). The script below is designed so that Window users don’t have to pick! Why not have your computer pick a random one each time you start your computer? The WotC page gives instructions on how to download these wallpapers and use one on your computer.
To use this script you must be using Windows 98, ME or XP so that you can have an Active Desktop. An Active Desktop is one that can be a webpage – and that’s good, because that’s just what we’re making here.
Open up Notepad (found by exploring your Start menu and then Programs and then Accessories), paste into the follow code and then save it as an .htm file to your Windows folder (or wherever you saved your wallpapers). To save this as an .htm file in Notepad you need to select “Save As” rather than “Save”, change the “Save as Type” to ‘All files (*.*) type “wallpaper.htm” in the box above and then click save.
Here’s the code:
<html>
<body background="MM2a_1024x768.bmp" bgcolor="#E5CA98">
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var how_many_wp = 3;
var now = new Date();
var sec = now.getSeconds();
var wp = sec % how_many_wp;
var wp = wp + 1;
if (wp==1)
{
document.body.background="MM2a_1024x768.bmp";
}
if (wp==2)
{
document.body.background="MM2b_1024x768.bmp";
}
if (wp==3)
{
document.body.background="MM2c_1024x768.bmp";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Note:
The MM2a_###x###.bmp needs to be changed to match the names of the wallpaper size you downloaded. I downloaded the 1024x768 size but if I'd download the 800x600 I'd be using the MM2a_800x600.bmp, MM2b_800x600.bmp and MM2c_800x600.bmp files instead.
Right click on your desktop, select Properties, then the background tab and then rather than selecting one of the three background images select wallpaper.htm instead. Click apply and watch the screen change.
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