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See if one of the programs on this page will do what
you want. One of them switches the desktop background
every X minutes. http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdesktoptools.html
I can't speak for any of those programs, but I have
never gotten malware from any program downloaded from
that site.
--- mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com wrote:
> Googling reveals several little programs, some free,
> some not, to cycle
> through a folder of photos as my desktop background
> (Windows XP).
>
> I like the pricetag on free ones, but I don't know
> which, if any, I can
> trust.
>
> I'd prefer to avoid spyware, adware, etc.
>
> I'd also prefer to avoid big honkin' affairs that
> consume system resources
> and do a dozen other functions in addition to just
> making a nice slow
> slideshow for my desktop. Oh, it should support
> dual-head configuration,
> even if it just puts the same picture up on each
> monitor.
>
> The Plus! Superpack for Windows, which I have,
> includes an app to create
> photo slideshows, but it doesn't seem to have an
> option to make 'em into the
> desktop background.
>
> I tried to work up a script to swap/rename
> successive photos into the single
> filename that's used by the standard Windows
> background, but that file
> doesn't get re-read except when the whole screen
> needs recreating. Besides,
> why re-invent the wheel? :-)
>
> Any suggestions welcomed, especially from those who
> are using one that they
> like.
>
> Techwriting tie-in... um.... ah... that is... well I
> work better when I'm
> relaxed, and a pleasant desktop background helps
> keep me relaxed. Yeah.
> That's it.
>
> Kevin
> (back to work, me!)
>
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