One of the cool things we got to see at the MS Ireland community launch of Windows 7 was the EDC guys’ presentation on Windows 7 themes. MS are putting together region sensitive themes, e.g. you’re in Ireland you get Irish wallpapers, in India you get Indian wallpapers, in South Africa you get South African wallpapers. Very cool. We all like to have wallpapers of our own so you can build your own theme. Some businesses want to deploy corporate themes; you can do that do.
Creating the theme is easy. Get your images together and size them appropriately, e.g. 1920 * 1280 pixels at 96DPI, 24Bit Depth JPG’s. You then need to customise your theme. I set the wallpapers to fit and to randomly change every 15 minutes. Once you’re done, right click on the theme and save it for sharing. That creates a file that you can share with friends or install on other machines. It contains all of the sounds and wallpapers you’ve specified.
I’ve created and shared a theme based on my wildlife photography. Tip: turn on the sound before you log out 🙂