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Best Windows 7 desktop background changer?
jshare:
I'm looking for Win7 software, preferably freeware, that can randomly choose desktop background images from a directory (and its subdirectories), stretch the image to fill the screen if necessary, and change the desktop background image every X seconds.
I just upgraded my wife's PC to Win7 from XP. On XP, she was using an old XP Powertoy to change the desktop background images every 3 seconds, and the images were being chosen from a large directory hierarchy of family pictures. This way, our second monitor became a large digital photo frame when it wasn't being used for DVDs, and we often found ourselves and/or our kids watching the pictures.
Win7's own background image settings allow an automatic image change every 10 seconds at least, but the images can only be taken from a single directory and not a directory hierarchy such as our family photos of the past 10 years. Although, if anyone knows some registry hacks to change this, I'm interested.
A good resource is this: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-wallpaper-changer.htm
Most of the listed programs there either don't support time intervals lower than 1 minute or don't support choosing images randomly from subdirectories or aren't compatible with Win7.
Any suggestions?
Jacob
Stoic Joker:
I'm looking for Win7 software, preferably freeware, that can randomly choose desktop background images from a directory (and its subdirectories), stretch the image to fill the screen if necessary, and change the desktop background image every X seconds.-jshare (January 25, 2012, 03:30 PM)
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Um... Windows 7 already does that natively. You can go as low/fast as changing the WP every 10 seconds if you like.
jshare:
Er... yes, I did say that too :)
In any case, I need a faster change than every 10 seconds.
Curt:
Wallpapers are not meant to be changed that often. What you're asking for in real life may be a screensaver. The two best of both kinds in my opinion are Murphy's automatic wallpaper-changer, AWC, and exisoftware's Endless Slideshow Screensaver Pro. I use both.
http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/ wallpaper-changer, not a screensaver
http://www.exisoftware.com/slideshow-screensaver/upgrade.html screensaver
MikeMcLoughlin:
Hi Jacob
Try the lite (free) version of this, you won't be disappointed.
http://www.nuonsoft.com/wallpapercycler/
Mike
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