[quote name='Scorch']zerotype - is that in Windows 7 or can I do that in Windows XP as well? I'd love to have the date, time, weather, etc on my wallpaper.
//edit: Lots of people have the date/time/weather thing, so i'm guessing that it's a Windows 7 thing.[/QUOTE]
[quote name='panzerfaust']It's actually a separate program called Rainmeter, it lets you put all sorts of things on your desktop. It's a free download, but you have to look for certain skins and objects yourself.[/QUOTE]
Yep, it's rainmeter which can be downloaded
here. Upon installing there are a few available objects and such (everything on my rainmeter is from the install except the time stamp). I'm still using Windows Vista sadly though.
To find other objects to use, there other skinning sites that provide it and deviantART has a page dedicated to it.
Lifehacker sometimes have a showcasing of desktops customized using rainmeter and some of them don't even look like windows anymore which is neat.
Hope this helps, if ya need help on this, lemme know since it can be a bit tough for non savvy coding people (me sadly) since it took me a while to figure out how to change the color on that time stamp.