Download Bing Desktop for Windows 7

Microsoft has just released a beta version of Bing Desktop – which will let you bring the Bing homepage to your Windows desktop.Bing Desktop is a 1.4MB download from Microsoft, that will on a daily basis, deliver the beautiful Bing images directly to your Windows computer and set them as wallpapers. Apart from this, the application displays a neat looking Bing search box in the center of your desktop, allowing you quick access to search on the web.When you download and install the tool, you will be towards the end, asked to set a few options. Set them to your liking and click on Finish.
In a few moments, Bing Desktop will display a new Bing wallpaper and will provide an automatic update of the Windows Desktop Background image to the Bing home page image each day.

How To Run Mac Dashboard Widgets On Windows 7 Desktop

Kludget Engine allows you to run Apple Mac’s dashboard widgets on the Windows operating system. Kludgets, widgets, gadgets, applets or screenlets are shiny little applications that decorate the desktop. More just than eye-candy on the screen, they provide an enhanced user experience.

The Kludget Engine’s inspiration is the Mac OS’s Dashboard widgets and is compatible in terms of technology and format.

But the Kludgets Engine brings some of better features from Yahoo’s Widget Engine, Microsoft Gadget, and Google Desktop, and Opera Widgets.

Features:

• MacOS Dashboard Widgets support
• Opera Widgets support
• Open Source (LGPL)
• Cross Platform (Windows,Linux)
• WebKit Technology (HTML5)
• QT Nokia Framework

Check it out : Kludgets home page.

How To Extract Wallpapers From Windows 7 Themepack

We have seen how to make a Windows 7 themepack from your bunch of favorite wallpapers. But what if you want to use the wallpapers of any themepack separately?
 

Well if you are using 7-Zip as your extraction utility, it shouldn’t be a problem! Simply right click on the themepack file and select “Extract”.

But if you are not using 7-Zip, the you may have to first apply that themepack and then navigate to the folder where the themepack stores the desktop wallpapers.

This folder is a hidden folder and hence you may have to first slecet on ‘Show hidden files & folder’ option from the Explorer Folder Options.

Having done this, navigate to the following folder:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\

Here you will see a bunch of theme folders. Select the theme folder, whose wallpapers you need and open the DesktopBackground folder.

You will see the desktop wallpapers of that themepack there!