Sunday 30 June 2019

Remove Color Background From Microsoft Agent Characters On Windows Vista, 7 & 8.

There is a bug on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1 that does not allow the Microsoft Agent Characters to display correctly when run.
The animated characters Merlin, Rover The Dog and others are the office assistants found in Microsoft Office 2003 and in other applications such as Deskbot and Mash.


Fix To Run Channel Screensaver From Windows 98 On Windows 7.

The Microsoft Active Channel Screensaver (also known as Channel Screensaver) was bundled with Internet Explorer 4 and 5. So was installed in Windows 95,98,Windows 2000 and Windows ME. This screensaver works fine on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8 and 8.1 but not on Windows 7.
However I have managed to find a fix to get the screensaver to work on Windows 7 and it does. So here is what you need to do.

How To Rename The Network Icon On Windows 7.

This also works on Windows Vista, Windows 8 and 8.1. I am not sure about Windows 10 because I am not using that.

On Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows you can rename the Network Icon which was My Network Places in Windows XP or Network Neighborhood in Windows 98 to any name you wanted.
Microsoft for same reason disabled this feature in Windows Vista and later Windows. But this feature is not removed and there is a way to get it back with a simple registry edit