XP wallpaper rotater

Question

I know Windows 7 has this feature, and I'm pretty sure Vista does too. I'm looking for a program to regularly pick from a set pool of desktop images for my XP desktop. Does anyone know where I can find something like this?

Answer 1

Wallpaper Juggler <-- nice one :)
John's background switcher

Answer 2

There's a PowerToy for that.

Answer 3

There was a similar question here.
As I said there, Webshots is a good program and an old version of it is minimal and works great.

Answer 4

While its defiantly a kludge it might work for you as well; though I started with a different premise in mind: to rotate wallpapers on restart.)

If one right clicks, a saved (offline) image, and sets an image as desktop it will land in the folder c:\documents and settings\%user%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\wallpaper*.bmp (if one right clicks in iexplore.exe or another browser it might land in a different directory: C:\Documents and Settings\%User%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp)

While my first thought was to call the autoexec.bat file, and have it execute before it gets to windows (cleaner). I was having a little difficulty (does xp still call the autoexec.bat at startup; or is it this partially locked down machine?)

rotate.bat

echo off
cls
rem insert an ascii image here... 
cd\
cd Docume~1
cd %user~1%
cd LocalS~1
cd Applic~1
cd Micros~1
ren wallpaper1.bmp wallpaper0.bmp
ren wallpaper2.bmp wallpaper1.bmp
ren wallpaper3.bmp wallpaper2.bmp
ren wallpaper4.bmp wallpaper3.bmp
ren wallpaper5.bmp wallpaper4.bmp
ren wallpaper6.bmp wallpaper5.bmp
ren wallpaper7.bmp wallpaper6.bmp
ren wallpaper8.bmp wallpaper7.bmp
ren wallpaper9.bmp wallpaper8.bmp
ren wallpaper0.bmp wallpaper9.bmp
del wallpaper0.bmp
cd \
Exit

Being I failed at the autoexec.bat I called the rotate.bat file on startup with a registry edit. \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\, Create New String "Rotater" Edit Value to C:\rotate.bat. (I know c:\Docume~1\%user~1%\StartM~1\Progra~1\Startup*.* might be easier, but ... )

Answer 5

I use Wallpaper Changer for years and I am happy with it, not longer updated and a bit old, but works well, is flexible and isn't on the way.

Answer 6

I've been using Wallpaper Randomizer. It's free and works very well. I like having the ability to set the time interval.