It will of course depend on what type of weather is being shown in the little window - but regardless, when the postal is covered up by a window, cpu useage should be at a minimum, with only the audio impacting on it to any degree.

more mail Martin.

Hey, just for the record, I want to know if I bought this for someone, do they have to also download the free version of DX???

Well, bought it, so I hope it works properly. Fingers crossed.

Wow, I'm impressed. Only 1% CPU.

As with everyone else, not sure about the wall. But otherwise, very nice. I hope it's development continues apace

Also, how would it react to being imported into DX2? A good idea or not?
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Spoke too soon, now left or right click on the portal does nothing and the sounds just stopped. I hate the sound of silence, but I do like the record. I really don't want to have to reinstall ND for every use!

I kinda like this thing - it would be better with pictures of gum trees, roos and HR Holden utes but I'm sure that'll come...
Only problem I have is that every so often the weather thingy in the top right hand corner karks it (crashes)and politely asks if I would like to tell Microsnot what I was doing at the time...

Hi All......

I have purchased this beauty, downloaded it and start it.

but I have some issues with it.

1. In email, stardock has provided me with serial. but after clicking the exeuctable, program starts automatically and doesn't ask about entering serial and starts directly.

2. I have choice of just two wallpapers. Where are the rest???
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Great little DX Widget. Well worth the price

Frogboy mentions in this thread...

As you can imagine,there' are a LOT of wallpapers in there....and a ton of different wallpapers

There are 16 1152x864 *JPG wallpapers included that represent four parts of the day, morning, day, evening and night for the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. You'll have to decide if that is a ton of wallpapers or not for yourself. For me, for the price, it's pretty darn reasonable at only 50-cents a wall, not even considering what the animated weather portal itself is worth.

To see all the walls, go into display properties, display tab, highlight the current Natural Desktop wall and hit browse. This is the easiest way to get to the temp folder housing all the walls.

The animations in the weather portal are awesome and there is a lot of detail to it. I only wish there was an option for a smaller frame...maybe just the black circular frame that's around it and a way to move it.

The only problem I have with this widget is when you restart it. Every time you restart it, Norton's thinks it's a new proggie trying to access the internet and I have to answer the Norton Warning Window. I think it's because the folder the *exe creates is temporary, Where as other DX weather objects I've used, I've only had to answer to Norton's just the first time it's run.

Whoever put this together...Martin?...did a great job and I'm glad I bought it

Whoever put this together...Martin?

Digital Blasphemy made the walls, Mason Fischer created the sounds, I made the weather widget and _Martin_ integrated the whole lot into a coherent theme

Thanks Tiggz for the info

I am pretty sure that this is the full version

Put the Natural Desktop.exe file you downloaded in a permanent place. I put mine in with the rest of my DX widgets. After it is up and running, right-click on the glass orb of the weather object and select auto-run. This saves settings and places a shortcut in your Startup File. If you move the .exe, then you have to start all over again.

I've rebooted a few times with no issues, other than the one with Nortons I mentioned early.
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