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How To Set A Video File As Taskbar User Picture Tile In Windows 7

Posted April 19, 2011 – 5:59 pm in: Windows 7 Guides
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Microsoft’s next generation Windows 8 OS includes some interesting new features such as Portable Workspace, Explorer with Ribbon UI, new Disk Cleanup utility, and more. Recently leaked Windows 8 pictures indicate that the new OS allows you set a video file (.wmv) as user picture which appears in taskbar, start menu, and logon screen.

How To Set Video File As Taskbar User Picture In Windows 7 Guide

We have already showed you how to get Windows 8 style taskbar user picture tile in Windows 7. Now, we want to show you how to set a video file as taskbar user picture tile in Windows 7.

 

 

 

In this guide, we will show you how to easily set a video file as taskbar user picture tile in Windows 7:

# Download Taskbar UserTile program from here.

 

# Extract the zip file contents to a folder.

Set Video File As Taskbar User Picture In Windows 7

# Next, edit Config.ini file and change the AvatarPath to the video file (.wmv) path that you want to set as Taskbar user picture tile. Please note that the video file must be in .WMV format.

How To Set Video File As Taskbar User Picture In Windows 7

# Run UserTile.exe file to set the selected video file as your taskbar user picture tile.

 

When you set a video file as taskbar user picture tile, it will not change the current user picture in Start menu and logon screen. Please note that the video user picture will not appear in Start menu and logon screen. You can view the new video user picture in taskbar only.

 

Also checkout some unofficial Windows 8 wallpapers and Windows 8 theme pack for your Windows 7 desktop.

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3 Comments

  1. em
    Posted April 19, 2011 at 6:55 pm | Permalink

    Um, this surely is the most useless hack ever?

  2. admin
    Posted April 19, 2011 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

    Why it’s useless? It’s a feature of Windows 8 and we have tried get the same feature in Windows 7.

  3. deco
    Posted April 20, 2011 at 6:16 am | Permalink

    Funfou legal aki!!! Valeu Admin ja estavo procurando um jeito pra isso mas vcs foram + rapido e me economizaram 1 tempo. Gratoooooooooo!!!!

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