# Vaio Wallpaper **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 22, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854 "2000-10-22T03:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/1 "2000-10-22T03:47:17Z")
My friend has a Sony Vaio that has as its wallpaper a graphic resembling a flat ocean and horizon. It changes gradually throughout the day to reflect the actual time (i.e. it has a sunrise coloring in the morning, bright blue in the day, and dark at night). Anyway, I’ve searched around for it so I can have it on my non-Sony computer but to no avail. Anyone here know where I could get it? I assume it’s some sort of active desktop thing. Could I copy it from his computer? Diver ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/2 "2000-10-22T14:26:19Z")
Find out the name of the file for the wallpaper, and copy it onto a disk. Then, just add it to the same place on your own system (directory wise). You might need certain DLLs and whatnot too, so if so, it will usually tell you which ones you are missing when you try to use it. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/3 "2000-10-22T14:39:19Z")
Its probably just a rotating screen saver program. Might be one at [download.com](http://download.com) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/4 "2000-10-22T14:41:21Z")
Also, if you have a All in Wonder video card, you can have a live camera image as the desktop. Just point your camera outside & you have a live display of the sun. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/5 "2000-10-22T23:32:57Z")
I seem to recall something of this nature on [download.com](http://download.com). It was supposably writeen for executives so they didnt lose track of time on their machine. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/6 "2000-10-22T23:38:30Z")
Ack! I lied…I went and checked it out and it was not a windows program…good luck, though! ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/7 "2000-10-23T01:22:05Z")
I’m fairly sure that it’s an Active Desktop web page that Sony has stashed on the hard drive somewhere. I just had to set up a VAIO slimptop for the boss at work and while I was generally blown away by the VAIO, I am also unimpressed at Active Desktop. ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaio-wallpaper/37854/8 "2000-10-23T03:30:21Z")
I found the actual wallpapers [here](http://www.wulfert.com/wallpaper/active_desktop.html) (scroll down to VIAOSCAPE [sic]). I haven’t tried it out, but from reading the file description it sounds like Sony might be using some proprietary code to make it change times throughout the day: > [@](#): > > PS: If you know how to change an applet parameter and restart an applet with javascript, or have an idea of how to get this automatically changing for the times of day, please email the author.