How to surf your favorite website directly from your desktop?

17 Comments By Ilan Neisse on August 16th, 2007 in How to and Hacks

Out of millions of websites that are available on the internet today, only a handful succeed in becoming a part of our daily surfing activity. There are many favorites such as Google, Facebook, Apple or CNN, and we each have our own – the URL’s which are first or second to be typed into the address bar at the beginning of every websurfing session. Sometimes, “our very special” websites are even granted the privileged position of browser’s homepage. Yet, they will always remain at least “one click away” from us.

The cool trick, we are bringing to you in the video below, will walk you through the simple steps of how to set your favorite website as your new computer’s wallpaper. This will allow you to access and surf the website directly from your desktop, exactly as you would do using a regular browser. (Note: Does not work on Vista)

I rewrote for you the HTML code as it appears in the video:
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<html>
<body>
<iframe src=”ADD THE URL OF YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITE”(i.ehttp://www.reddit.com/) width=100% height=100%>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

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Enjoy!


click here to see the video at metacafe’s

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17 Responses to “How to surf your favorite website directly from your desktop?”

  1. Lior Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Hi

    I tried it with Vista but I coudn’t choose the .html file as a Wallpaper…
    help?

  2. arnon Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    lior, what if you rename the html file to jpg?

  3. Lior Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    if I rename it to jpeg or jpg the background becomes black…

  4. The Walyou Team Says:
    August 19th, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    Hey Lior,
    Turns out it doesn’t work in Vista because Vista only lets you save .jpg files as desktop backgrounds. We promise to find tips and tricks that work on Vista as well.

  5. Ram Says:
    August 20th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    great thing! started to use alreday!!
    Good Luck with the site!

  6. gary Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 5:04 pm

    I tried it and it didnt work
    is it cuz im usin vista?

  7. The Walyou Team Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

    Hey Gary, unfortunately this trick doesn’t work on the Vista OS.

  8. Seth Says:
    September 27th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    Um, doesn’t work with XP either, won’t let me use a html document as my background… >.>

  9. Tal Says:
    September 28th, 2007 at 12:37 am

    Hi Seth!
    I have just tried it now again with windows XP home edition and it worked.
    I will try to contact you by email to see if I may be of further assistance.

  10. Carlo Says:
    September 28th, 2007 at 8:40 am

    I think this works with Windows 98 to XP, not Vista. The ‘Active Desktop’ has been phased out and the Sidebar has been introduced.

  11. The Walyou Team Says:
    September 29th, 2007 at 1:03 am

    Hey Carlo,
    You are right, it doesn’t work with Vista but does with the others.

  12. Cool Websites and Tips (edition #95) » Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 am

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  13. Jak Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am

    is there anything wrong with this?

  14. Jay Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 am

    hey it doznt work……… im usin XP Pro…… i get an error sayin cannot find file D:\My Doc\”http:\reddit.com\” make sure the path or interner address is correct

    got any ideas?

  15. The Walyou Team Says:
    October 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    Hello Jak and Jay, thank you for visiting.

    @Jak: It works with all Windows operating systems but not Vista. If it is done step by step as above, then it should work just fine.

    @Jay: We checked it several times, and it is working for us. The path name needs to be a valid url with a colon followed by two diagonal top right slashes, such as: “http://www.reddit.com”. Based on your comment, the error message mentions that you have written “http:\reddit.com\”.

    Try this again, hopefully it works out. If it does not, we would be more than happy to assist you further by email.

  16. Topsy Krett Says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    You can also go to Youtube.com and type under the search: How To make you PC background a Webpage; It shows you how to perform this trick as well. The creator of the video is NuclearActiveGuy.

  17. Валентин Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Любое искусство, особенно нетрадиционное, всегда вызывало ожесточенные споры. Думаю, оно просто имеет право на свое существование, вот и всё!

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