Homemade Digital Picture Frame

Step 3 Install OS and Software

I installed all the software outside of the picture frame, I also robbed power to run the cd drive and floppy drive, from one of my computers. (I sure do have alot of extra "stuff" lying around!)

I used an old copy of Windows 98SE that I had, and hacked it a bit by removing the Shutdown and Startup screens to ones I made in MSPaint see Annoyances.org for instructions.

I also went into Regedit and turned off my desktop (so that no Icons will apear) and disabled/hid the task bar.

I set up my network using the motherboards built in LAN ( you could also add wireless if you wanted)

I installed RealVNC to control the Picture Frame remotely.

I searched for a few days to find a Slide show program that I liked, but couldn't.
I finally just wrote my own in Visual Basic, that worked nicely. (Contact me if you would like to use it for your DPF project and I will email it to you.)