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This is my latest article. It's about creating your own Desktop customiser, meaning change the screensavers, preview & configure screensavers. Get & set the screen resolution, change your wallpaper, change Visual Styles, and some Theme stuff.
Any critique & comments welcome :
Customising Your Desktop with Visual Basic.NET 2005
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_misc/gamesandfun/article.php/c14319/
Hi Hannes
I have just had a look at your article, fantastic....
I am goin to play around with....
the first thing I want to do is show a screensaver within my application...
at the moment it just opens in it own window...which is not very cool
I just hope I can figure it out
thanks a million
clint
edit.....
ps...thanks for your reply to my yipee post...
it has been moved and locked
clint
Hello again Clint!
Thanx for your wonderful comments ,and I'm glad you like that article 
To answer your question regarding showing the screensaver inside your application.
You could use the SetParent & SendMessage APIs, as demonstrated in this thread :
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=2283791&SiteID=1
I modified my code to start the Selected ScreenSaver ( btnDiffScreen_Click ), based on the thread above, like this :
Private Sub btnDiffScreen_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDiffScreen.Click
Dim LVSel As Integer 'Used To Store Selected Item
If lvScreen.SelectedItems.Count > 0 Then 'If Something Selected In ListView
'Get Selected Item's Index End IfLVSel = lvScreen.SelectedIndices(0)
Dim proc As Process
proc = Process.Start(ScreenNames(LVSel))
proc.WaitForInputIdle()
SetParent(proc.MainWindowHandle, picPreviewScreen.Handle)
SendMessage(proc.MainWindowHandle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MAXIMIZE, 0)
End Sub
It runs the screensaver inside the PicPreviewScreen Picturebox, and, if you move your mouse, or press a key, it does stop, as it should.
The only glitch here is when it starts, it shows the screensaver fullscreen ( not even for a second ), then, continues to show it in the picturebox.
Thanx again for all your wonderful comments, and I hope I helped solve your issue with the screensaver
Hannes
I just made a random background changer in C# sort of like your wallpaper genie except it was a little more featured. Probably because it wasn't meant to be an article, but either way real nice job 
Thanx a lot for your wonderful comments Paul
Yeah, the Wallpaper genie ( as it is there ), needs some more work & features. My current version I use at home, allows me to obtain all picture files in all sub directories of the PC, or where I specify, that wasn't there in the article. I also added some Rotating and some other image editing features as well, because sometimes the pictures aren't perfect, and needs some editing - but it works perfectly on MS Vista, and everyday, I get another picture on my desktop - I do have about 1600 pictures, just a hobby.
You know, these 2 articles about the desktop, makes life easy. I'm trying to make a taskbar customiser, but that's unfortunately not that easy.
Thanx again for your comments, and if anyone have ideas on what I can also perhaps include in it, I'll take it into consideration
Hannes