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Realistic Snowflakes by Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry - images by PixelPirate -
Link Bring the winter snows to your desktop! Features hundreds of swaying, wind-swept flakes floating in the background. Click the snowman to change user options, which include maximum number of flakes (actual count is balanced for idle CPU use), flake interval (lower = faster), gravity and settle time on the bottom of your screen. Try the flakes out today - no need to wait for Christmas!
* PLEASE READ: You must hide desktop icons or be in IconX mode (
Link ) for best performance. This snow uses lots of objects, and these objects *must* be at desktop level to perform well. This will *only* work if you are hiding the desktop icons (this option is on the Theme tab when configuring DesktopX), or are in IconX mode. If you do not do this, expect high CPU usage and a low number of flakes. Sorry, that's just the way Windows XP works! Expect improvments in Longhorn. :-)
* READ ALSO: This does not occur on all machines, but if you find DesktopX's user interface freezes up above a certain number of flakes, please terminate DesktopX via Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del/Processes tab/right-click DesktopX.exe/End Process) and restart with a lower value for Max Flakes - it should restart with the previous session's settings, not the ones that locked up. This should not affect other programs, only DesktopX. Make sure you have the very latest version of DesktopX available as future updates may fix this.
Having said the above, do experiment with the settings to find the best level for your computer - the initial settings are conservative, particularly the Max Flake count. The snowflake script will automatically compensate for CPU usage by other programs by removing snowflakes when CPU use is high, and adding them back when it is low - you should be able to run this object in the background without trouble, although you might want to set it to 0 flakes while gaming.
Flakes are customizable - just clone another OriginalFlake or replace existing images. Text works too, try some floating Wingdings! You may also tweak certain variables in the script - see script comments. Many thanks to PixelPirate for creating the snowman and settings dialog images for this - all rights are reserved for these. You may use this script in your own objects as long as they are free to download - edit the snowman's script for details.
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