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With my new laptop I got a screen with a 1920x1200 resolution, so I went out looking for wallpapers for the resolution, because my existing ones degraded in quality with that size.
My search led to Deaddreamer from which I have my current wallpaper as well.
But nowadays he got so many good ones, so I picked up 5 1600x1200 wallpapers. And now I want a random wallpaper each time I logon.
Having some spare time (very rare) I created something small myself, I'm sure there are tools out there to do all that.
Originally I wanted to use PHP to get a random number and set the wallpaper, and then call the php script with a bat file and set it as a scheduled task. But that kept popping up a dos prompt each time it set it, and my wallpaper disappeared after boot (some bad registry settings).
So I used KiXtart to set the wallpaper and then link it with a shortcut which would run minimized.
That worked for one paper, but when I tried the RAND function in KiXtart, it didn't go well.. But I had the php script and bat still there so I let that make a random number and then kill the KiX script with that number as argument.
Result:
Shortcut to wall.bat, which calls wall.php, which makes a random number and calls wallpaper.kix with the number, after which my wallpaper is set, and saved in registry.
I have to shortcut Run as minimized and on logon and every hour, and now I got a nice random wallpaper implementation.
Overly complicated? Maybe, If you have php installed, it's a small solution, otherwise you need a 1.3Mb dll and 24k php.exe in the same dir, which isn't really something bad.
I have zipped everything and written the steps to install it out in a Readme.txt for everyone wanting it as well. I also included the php.exe and dll.
Download it here: RandomWall.zip (706Kb).
And now I have sweeeet super-detailed wallpapers auto-changing without any special timer programs running, but just the Scheduled Tasks :)
Here are my wallpapers:
(convert them to .bmp first, not sure if it's required, but whatever, bmp is nicer, no need for desktop to go in Web mode)
My search led to Deaddreamer from which I have my current wallpaper as well.
But nowadays he got so many good ones, so I picked up 5 1600x1200 wallpapers. And now I want a random wallpaper each time I logon.
Having some spare time (very rare) I created something small myself, I'm sure there are tools out there to do all that.
Originally I wanted to use PHP to get a random number and set the wallpaper, and then call the php script with a bat file and set it as a scheduled task. But that kept popping up a dos prompt each time it set it, and my wallpaper disappeared after boot (some bad registry settings).
So I used KiXtart to set the wallpaper and then link it with a shortcut which would run minimized.
That worked for one paper, but when I tried the RAND function in KiXtart, it didn't go well.. But I had the php script and bat still there so I let that make a random number and then kill the KiX script with that number as argument.
Result:
Shortcut to wall.bat, which calls wall.php, which makes a random number and calls wallpaper.kix with the number, after which my wallpaper is set, and saved in registry.
I have to shortcut Run as minimized and on logon and every hour, and now I got a nice random wallpaper implementation.
Overly complicated? Maybe, If you have php installed, it's a small solution, otherwise you need a 1.3Mb dll and 24k php.exe in the same dir, which isn't really something bad.
I have zipped everything and written the steps to install it out in a Readme.txt for everyone wanting it as well. I also included the php.exe and dll.
Download it here: RandomWall.zip (706Kb).
And now I have sweeeet super-detailed wallpapers auto-changing without any special timer programs running, but just the Scheduled Tasks :)
Here are my wallpapers:
- ddr_0075_vertical_theory_pure.jpg
- ddr_0075_vertical_theory_decay.jpg
- ddr_0088_v1r2a_1600x1200.jpg
- ddr_0091_bioforge_1600x1200.jpg
- ddr_0086_21st_century_kaos_1600x1200.jpg
(convert them to .bmp first, not sure if it's required, but whatever, bmp is nicer, no need for desktop to go in Web mode)
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