One issue I have with it is that Zone Alarm detectes it as a new program every time it runs. I now have about 15 copies of Natural Desktop in my program control list. Another thing that should problably be changed is on the options screen. If you click and drag any of the links all of the text moves around.

I just noticed that Natural Desktop just swapped in a sunrise wallpaper even though the sun won't rise for about another hour and a half, which prompts the question: Are these events synchronized with actual sunrise/sunset times according to my zip code?

Love the program! However, some glitches:

1. Norton AV sees it as a malicious script when shutting down WindowsXP pro.

2. When rebooting XP Pro, ZoneAlarm pro requires me to reauthorize web access each time.

3. When rebooting, settings are not saved but default back to initial settings...zip somewhere in Michigan, and a Centigrade temperature scale, even though zip had been set to local setting and temperature to Fahrenheit.

Thanks....

Larry J.

ps. How about a newsgroup to keep developer/user/support interaction going??? LJ

Back one more time.......Does anyone know how to un-install this baby???

I can only find the application, no program, no program file, no way to un-insstall....

I just sent an e-mail off to support ...

Where do I put the registration code given in the confirmation email when I bought this Natural Desktop?

It's a brilliant piece of work!

Steve

I really like the program! It is so cool, especially for those of us stuck at a computer all day, like me. I have engineers coming over and saying "I hear birds and crickets." Thank you so much!

All: There doesn't appear to be a need for the registration code.

pattigale: The 26 Meg executable is simply a DX Script (or the like) and doesn't have to be unintalled. If you context-click anywhere on the control object, you just deselect the Autorun option. Context-click again to "Close".

Corky_O: Might be a display driver problem. I am able to click any of the three triangular buttons in the corners and get the animation prompt each time.

Frogboy, _Martin_, et. al.: This is a great little proggie for a first release. It is truly high quality! I agree with most of the suggestions here, including the msg board idea, but here are my particular favs:

1. Settings should be saved between reboots and start/stop of script.
2. Wallpapers should more closely reflect the regional weather and type of surroundings (i.e., there are no tropical rainforrests or bogs in Ohio...at least NTIKO ).
3. Volume Control, Volume Control, Volume Control: Seems as thought the script is using a hook into WMP. Anyway to "hook" into the volume control?

Addl. praise and confirmations:

1. Love the animations in the control object everything seems fairly accurate there.
2.The wallpapers look fine on my 17" widescreen laptop. I don't agree with the comments above where folks say they don't look good.
3. Once I placed the exe in one location, started it, shut it down and then restarted it Norton FW didn't prompt again for allowing Net access. Same with NAV, once I "authorized" the script, all was well.
4. I don't mind the db.com in the lower right...an artist who makes a buck off of one's own work should protect it.

Okay, I've said enough...for now. muwahahaha, *ack!* *cough*, ahem...

Tryzub, the sounds are actualy designed to be summery because that was the original inspiration for it - that in the Winter, those of us losers who missed out on the summer because we worked throough it can at least hear the sounds of summer.

So the sounds themselves, are all spring/summer sounds though they do change through the course of the day.

News group is up.

Tryzub,

You may be correct in the diplay limitation of my machine.

I purchased a computer with onboard graphics and no AGP slot (bad move). The drivers are correct (direct from Intel) - Extreme Graphics 2 for XP pro.

Will be building my own machine within a year, so all these programs from stardock will at least be supplied with plenty of graphic resources including the new PCI express bus.

Thanks for the input.