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How To Create A Windows 7 Theme

You may have seen our article last month on how to add lots of Windows 7 country themes to your collection of already pre-loaded themes on Microsoft’s latest OS… But what if you want to be able to have your own collection of pictures and wallpapers displaying on your desktop? Well, you can create your own theme for Windows 7 in just a few simple steps, or just create a desktop slideshow for simplicity.

In previous versions of Windows, if you wanted a picture to be displayed as your desktop wallpaper, you could right click that picture and select ‘Set as Desktop Background’, but if you wanted to cycle through wallpapers, you had to use a third party program such as this Windows Vista wallpaper changer. Don’t worry, the basic option is still there in Windows 7, but you also have another option…

Distributed Computing Software Downloads

Folding@home is a distributed computing software system that means you can put your idle computer to good use by means of distributed computing project which is similar to one of the first projects of this type; SETI@home. Distributed computing software uses the spare computing cycles of your home computer by sending it a small chunk of work to process, which alone isn’t a great amount, but when thousands of other computers are also contributing to a project in this manner, all that combined processing power equals a huge supercomputer which can process highly complex data.

In this case, distributed computing software centres around simulating the folding of proteins in the human brain – which when they fold incorrectly cause diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. Folding@home hopes to help in the medical research of finding cures to these diseases and you can help this research by downloading and running the Folding@home software.