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Theirs a option with vlc media player that lets you use .avi's and other video files as a desktop background
i think my desktop background would look awesome with the folding@home viewer as my desktop background

im using vista x64
but i also fold@home with my ps3

I'm only familiar with the OSX version of a F@H viewer and that one takes a lot of cpu capacity to run. That takes away from your Folding capability.

In the "early days" there was an F@H Client that ran as a Screensaver. It may still even be available on the site somewhere. It was found to be a capacity Killer and it became a "not suggested for serious Folding" route.

Windows viewer doesn't work well and is not recommended, could you not try and grab some footage from your PS3 (which is brilliant) and use as a screensaver?

AFAIK, on windows, the viewer can cause crashes and other problems. It may or may not work depending on your luck. I tried it on my laptop and it worked but it caused my desktop to crash. I was only experimenting with them and the viewer uses a lot of resources. An entire core on my laptop plus GPU was being used. If you can capture the PS3 screen as kiore suggested, could you post the link so that I may download it.

Assuming that the desktop viewer runs, then run it and use the print screen key which should copy the screen to the clip board. Then run paint (in accessories, if you installed it) and you can then paste the screen into that program. From there you can edit any irrelevant parts out and save the picture to a file that Windows can use as a desktop background.

Paint may not be very sexy but it will do the job.

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