Recently I decided to install Windows 7 and use it as my main Operating System of choice. I have been thrilled with Windows 7 to say the least. It’s a vast improvement over Vista.
There’s one thing that I’ve always wanted as far as eye candy. A moving desktop background. It’s such a simple thing, that I would have thought this would have easily been done by now. With a little bit of searching, I found software that could do this task for a price. However, I couldn’t find anything for free.
So, I went back to using Winamp. Winamp has had the Milkdrop visualization plug-in for years now. Milkdrop has the capability to render the visualization to the desktop, and still have the icons float overtop of it. It acts just like a moving desktop wallpaper.
So, when I moved to Windows 7, I reinstalled Winamp, and went to put my favorite visualization on, Eo.S. – Starburst 01. (With milkdrop, you can turn scroll lock on, to keep the visualization locked on) However, with the new Winamp download, they took that particular visualization out…
Luckily, I still had my XP install on my 2nd hard drive, so I simply copied the preset back over, and poof, I have a starburst moving background wallpaper, that’ll animate to my music. So, if anyone else wants the Eo.S. – Starburst 01 visualization, you can download it here. (Extract to Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\Milkdrop2\presets)
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