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Portable Wallpaper Changer

Beside Automatic Wallpaper Changer and Wallpaper Changer, Wallpaper Master is also a free wallpaper changer program that seems to be worth to take a look. It is available in portable version so it’s good if you don’t want to add more installed software in computer. Just like the two mentioned previously, this software also comes with a lot of options to change wallpaper the way you want.

Adding individual wallpaper is possible, but adding a directory would be much faster if you want to put the whole collection into the queu. The wallpaper categorization ability enables you to group wallpapers into different categories. The wallpaper can be moved or copied from one category to another as well. More »

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Automatically Change Wallpapers with Automatic Wallpaper Changer

The best way to take advantage of your wallpaper collection is to use an automatic wallpaper changer to automatically change wallpapers at specified time intervals. The built-in wallpaper changer that Windows provides is probably enough for some people who don’t really care with how their desktop background looks like, but it’s definitely not enough for users who has many wallpapers.

Automatic Wallpaper Changer is a Windows freeware armed with many options so you can automatically change wallpaper every speficied seconds, minutes or hours in different styles and in a way that is a lot more flexible. More »

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Wallpaper Rotation Freeware - Portable

It doesn’t have as many features as Wallpaper Changer, but it’s perfect if you want a more straightforward application to automatically rotate wallpapers on desktop. It can rotate wallpapers every Windows startup, every certain minutes or hours. It’s called Moody Desktop, a free portable wallpaper rotation for Windows user.

The position of the wallpaper can be set to stretch, center or tile and the order can be sorted randomly or based on the name. Moody Desktop also allows you to include the wallpapers that are located within a subdirectory. The main window of the program can be hidden to the tray as well.

I couldn’t find which version this automatic wallpaper changer does support, but since it is released on 15/11/2008 and updated on 1/12/2008, then I assume it works for Windows XP and Vista. The installer is also available if the portable version isn’t your choice. The size of the installer is 71 KB and the portable version is 60 KB.

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How to Change Default Wallpaper Directory / Folder in Desktop Properties for Windows XP

We can easily change our desktop wallpaper by right-clicking on desktop, click “Properties, open “Desktop” tab, pick one of the provided wallpapers within the list and hit the apply button. However, when we want to change the desktop wallpaper with another one that is located within another folder, you’ll have to click the browse button to go to the folder and pick the wallpaper.

If you keep your favorite wallpapers in a separate folder and most of the time you rotate the wallpapers on the desktop, why don’t you just make the folder to be your default wallpaper directory? In this way, you don’t need to click the browse button every time you want to change the desktop wallpaper from Deskop Properties window.

How to change the default wallpaper directory

Open registry editor and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

After you find the key, look the right pane and find the string value “WallPaperDir”. The default value data of it is:

%SystemRoot%\Web\Wallpaper

This value data has to be changed. Double-click it and enter the location of your wallpaper directory or folder. Mine is located in H:\Visual Styles Collection\Wallpaper\Sweet, so I change the default value data with the location.

That’s it. After you change it, you can close the registry editor window and open the Desktop Properties. You’ll see that all of the wallpapers within the list are the ones that are located in the folder you set in the Registry editor.

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