Color Me Video and Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player is the Microsoft Operating System's native player so it is probably used more often than any other player. As reviewed on the Color Me Video: The Players page, the video overlay color preferences for Windows Media Player is a dark purple or plum color. This color is not ideal for viewing videos as desktop wallpaper using the video overlay color.

Using using the video overlay color, Windows Media Player is not as versatile as the VideoLan player. The Windows Media Player does not support minimization while playing video files such as .avi, .mp4, etc. It does support DVD play back while the player is minimized or when using the tool bar feature.

Color Me Video and VLC Glitches

While experimenting with the VideoLan Player and Color Me Video Themes for XP, the control buttons were hard to read on the main player console. To by pass this glitch follow these instructions:

• Go to Settings
• Select "Preferences"
• Check the "Advanced options box" at the lower right
• Open the "Main Interfaces" drop down
• Select "wxWidgets"
• Select "Show labels in toolbar

You should then see the player control buttons with the text beneath it. You will find by setting this preference, resizing the player and the video will be restricted in comparison to disabling this preference.

Look Ma! No Icons!

If you have been experimenting with video overlay colors and Color Me Video Techniques, you now have the ability to watch movies and streaming videos as desktop wallpaper. Now all you have to do is get rid of those icons. For Windows XP users, just:

• Right mouse click on an empty area of the desktop.
• Select "Arrange Icons By"
• Be sure that the "Show desktop icons" is not checked.

There you have it. No icons. If you are not using Windows XP, use a search engine and your help option to remove your desktop icon.

Where's all my desktop things?

Now that you have cleared your desktop of all those icons, you then need to use the Windows toolbar features to access your things. This is what you do:

• Right-mouse click and empty area of the taskbar.
• The taskbar is the empty space where opened files appear
• Select "Toolbars"
• Choose "Desktop"

You should see a button labeled "Desktop" with two little pointers located on the next your system tray. Click on those two little pointers and you should see your desktop items So there you have it, a icon free desktop with access to your desktop things.