Using local HTML as desktop w/Vista?

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On all of my XP machines, I use a hand-written web page as my desktop, which contains links to the roughly 100 sites that I visit on a regular basis...to do this, I just open Display Properties / Desktop / Customize Desktop / Web, and then point to the local HTML file...

There seems to be no way to do this with Vista (in my case, it's Home Premium) - Personalize / Desktop Background just leads me to image files...

What am I missing, or is this even possible with Vista?

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I'm not sure it's possible with vista, being that this was a sore spot with windows' security. I'm not seeing it in windows 7 (which is just like vista) but maybe if you turn Aero off, or choose a non-aero theme, it will let you?

 

"Active Desktop" Replacement for Vista

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...success-active-desktop-replacement-for-vista/

Perhaps this will help.

 

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Tried the Active Desktop replacement, but the .exe cannot open the hook it needs to operate, at least on this machine...I'll try it later on my home machine ( <sshhh - I'm at work> ) ...

I'll also try turning Aero off, see if that'll do it...

Thanks, guys...

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Just turned off the Aero interface, but there are still no options to point to a local file (other than image files)...again, I'll try the Active Desk rep. later, but I'm certainly not going to spend a lot of time on this - I can always use the local HTML file as my Firefox start page...

Thanks again...

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Never could get the 'Active Desktop Replacement' to work correctly, so I've abandoned the desktop idea (for now)...

Thought I'd post a shot of what my custom home page looks like...

All of the links are 'target_blanks', so everything opens in new windows: this method works with various browsers, and is extremely efficient and helpful as a start page - much easier than having to scroll down a lengthy bookmarks menu...

I also have this page loaded in the 'public_html' folders of a couple of the websites I'm maintaining: if I go on a service call, and if the computer I'm working on has internet access, then I can pull up this page as a ready repository of download, scanner and troubleshooting links...

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thats pretty cool. I just use the bookmarks pane. It helps if you have a widescreen monitor, and i just leave the bookmark pane open on the left hand side. I just organize by folders. I also use yahoo bookmarks, for when I'm not at my computer.