Rotating Wallpaper in Windows 7
Written by Alan Saturday, 10 July 2010 09:12
Everyone has their personal wallpaper on their Windows PC. It’s one of the first things most people due to customize a computer. Some people even change it periodically, but I suspect many never do. The idea of Wallpaper (now called Desktop Background by Microsoft) has been around since Windows 95.
However, Windows 7 improves on this often-used, but seldom-trumpeted feature. One of the most important ways it does this is by allowing an automatic rotation of multiple images to be used. It’s a slide show on you desktop that never ends and can be completely chosen and controlled by you.
You can choose from a number of high quality images that are included in Windows, you can download more from Microsoft or elsewhere on the web, or you can use you own digital photos.
With all of that said, lets set up a slide show. We’ll use our digital photos for this example.
1. Start by right-clicking on your desktop and choosing Personalize.
2. At the bottom of the screen click Desktop Background.
3. The Pictures Location Dropdown will let you choose between all locations on your PC (or network). You can choose Windows Desktop Backgrounds (high-quality Microsoft images), Picture Library (you photos and saved images), Solid Colors, and more.
4. As you mouse-over each image a check box will appear at the top left of the picture. To add the image simply check the box.
5. Once you have chosen you images for the slide show you can then choose the interval at which you would like the background to change. Simply choose from the dropdown box at the bottom of screen under Change picture every:
And that’s all there is to it. There are many other Personalization options you can play around with and I will cover more of those in another post.
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