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  2. Windows XP visual styles - Wikipedia

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    It is accompanied by a new wallpaper (inspired by Windows XP's iconic Bliss wallpaper). It presents a relucent, vivid, and faux-reflective color scheme with intense blue and green colors. The theme was later made available in December 2004 as an optional download.

  3. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  4. Charles O'Rear - Wikipedia

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    Charles O'Rear (born November 26, 1941) is an American photographer and author, known for photographing Bliss, the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and for being a National Geographic photographer from 1971 to 1995. O'Rear was born in Butler, Missouri, and developed an interest in photography at a young age.

  5. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Despite this, the files for the sound scheme are still included on the Windows XP CD-ROM in the i386 folder and could be manually installed on Windows XP from the CD-ROM. The Microsoft Sound , as well as Windows 2000's startup and shutdown sounds under the names Windows Logon Sound and Windows Logoff Sound respectively were removed in favor of ...

  6. Windows DreamScene - Wikipedia

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    Windows DreamScene is a utility that allows videos of the .wmv and .mpg format and other optimized animations to be used as desktop wallpapers.It is one of the many Windows Ultimate Extras offered for Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. [1]

  7. Active Desktop - Wikipedia

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    Its status on XP 64-bit edition (for Itanium) and on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 is not widely known. This corresponded to version Internet Explorer 4.0 to 6.x, but not Internet Explorer 7. [1] HTML could be added both in place of the regular wallpaper and as independent resizable desktop items. Items available on ...

  8. Features new to Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    With Windows XP, the Start button has an updated appearance and is larger, making it faster to mouse over to it and click it.To help the user access a wider range of common destinations more easily from a single location, the Start menu was expanded to two columns; the left column focuses on the user's installed applications, while the right column provides access to the user's documents, and ...

  9. 3D Maze - Wikipedia

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    Cornell University's Maze in a Box, a project to create 3D graphics using the Atmel Mega32 microcontroller, used the 3D Maze screensaver as inspiration. [2] In 2017, independent video game developer Cahoots Malone made Screensaver Subterfuge, a video game based on the screensaver created using assets from the original ssmaze.scr file.