Power Your Desktop Theme with RSS

Written by Alan Monday, 16 May 2011 08:00

If you are someone who regularly changes your desktop wallpaper – or even Windows 7 theme, which is a series of rotating wallpapers – then you will benefit by running the new Microsoft tool which allows your PC to subscribe to an RSS feed of wallpaper.  Known as the Bing Dynamic RSS theme, it allows wallpaper to constantly update with the latest official pictures from Bing.  According to Microsoft, they will be adding two new images per week, and thee are already about 50 images in the feed.

Once you have download Bing Dynamic RSS Theme you can begin the setup.  When you first apply an RSS theme to your desktop, you’ll be asked if you want to subscribe to the RSS feed, and you do need to click “Download attachments” to get it working properly.

It will take a minute or so, after you click “download attachments” for your new desktop wallpapers to appear – they have to download, so it depends on your connection speed.  Once installed, your wallpaper will rotate the same way it does when you are using one of the Windows 7 themes, but new images will be added to the rotation om a regular basis.

The Bing Dynamic RSS Theme was released as a three month trial a while back and it’d great to see that it is back full-time now.  Eventually it may become the sole distribution method for official Windows wallpapers.  Probably not though, at least not without some tweaking to allow for user picture preferences.  After all, not everyone like wildlife photos, or landscape photos, or…

Alan

Alan is the owner and editor of Making Windows Easy. In addition to writing about technology he is also an avid distance runner and hiker. Read More

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