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Reply to Having a problem with Wallpapers in SD Virtual Desktops WinCustomize Forums

Hi Philly, sorry for the late reply. If you are still searching for a solution, this might help. I should probably advertise this little applet more than I have: SVDhelper - Lets Stardock Virtual <a class="iAs" style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; bac

Reply to Wall papers not displaying!! in SD Virtual Desktops WinCustomize Forums

If you are also running DesktopX or IconX, this could be why the screen isn't updating. I haven't tried the latest version of Stardock Virtual Desktop, but this was a problem in earlier versions. If you search the forums going back several years, you'll see this problem being reported by multiple people. I don't recall ever seeing a response from a stardock employee concerning this problem. So I took matters into my own hands: I have a short developer diary of what I found out

Reply to Applet to fix wallpaper not changing with VD + IconX in SD Virtual Desktops WinCustomize Forums

Okay. The final piece of the puzzle is in place. SVDhelper will now store separate desktop icons per virtualdesktop and will also retain their icon positions when used with IconX. This last feature is a little more brute force than the stuff in the last two updates. In between virtualdesktop switches, I am unloading IconX, replacing the "user.icons" file with a corresponding copy for the current virtualdesktop, and then reloading IconX. As a side benefit to loading/unloading IconX, the wallpaper

Reply to Applet to fix wallpaper not changing with VD + IconX in SD Virtual Desktops WinCustomize Forums

Big Update: I fixed a couple bugs and added a few features. You can now have separate icons & folders for each desktop. File/Desktop Management is very simple: the Virtual Desktop folders sit on your real Desktop (named "VirtualDesktopXX"). As you switch between virtualdesktops, SVDhelper changes the XP Desktop Special Folder assignment (like TweakUI). When you quit SVDhelper, it will restore your original Desktop (as well as your original wallpaper). These virtual Desktop fo

Reply to Applet to fix wallpaper not changing with VD + IconX in SD Virtual Desktops WinCustomize Forums

Update: I had mentioned that there was a delay/lag of 2-4 seconds between when you switch to a new desktop and when the wallpaper was updated on screen. It turns out to be related to how IconX updates the onscreen wallpaper. Every 5.0 seconds, IconX reads the filename for the wallpaper directly from the Windows registry. If you change virtual desktops (or even the wallpaper from Display Properties) right after IconX does its registry scan, it takes the full 5 seconds to show the new wal

Applet to fix wallpaper not changing with VD + IconX in SD Virtual Desktops WinCustomize Forums

I made an applet to update the wallpaper to the corresponding virtual desktop when you use VD + IconX. It changes the wallpaper setting at the system level and waits for IconX to update its window / "desktop". I'd like to post it on wincustomize but don't know under what category to put it. If anyone has any thoughts, let me know. It's a 32kb zip (with source code). [EDIT: SVDhelper now has a home among the DesktopX widgets. -db ] This is a screenshot:<br