Hi,
We all love wallpapers. I and love them too.
Sometime they reflect our moods too. I have a huge collection of Wallpapers and i love to change my wallpapers in once or twice a week.
In the time of windows XP, i used to have a software which changed my wallpaper daily when i login to the laptop.
To be frank i never used to have a any desktop changer software in my windows7 laptop.
Few days ago i just write a small snippet code to change my wallpaper on daily basis.
How i do that ,
It is simple, Powershell + Registry and that all.
Download Link : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Set-Random-Wallpaper-Using-e79e423
Lets do it.
The below variable is storing the path to my Pictures. {you can change it to with yours ,, or you can use Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE -ChildPath Pictures .}
$myPictureFolder = 'C:\Users\aman.dhally\Pictures\’
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Now, i am running Get-ChildItem (dir) on our Picture folder, and using Get-Random cmdlet, i am choosing any single wallpaper randomly.
$getRandomWallpaper = Get-ChildItem -Recurse $myPictureFolder |where {$_.Extension -eq ".jpg"} | Get-Random -Count 1
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Now we are using Set-ItemProperty to set the select wallpaper to the desktop.
To update the desktop we have to use rundll32.exe and to be frank, until we don’t run the "
rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop\' -name wallpaper -value $getRandomWallpaper.FullName
rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters
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$myPictureFolder = 'C:\Users\AD\Pictures\WallPapers\IronMan'
$getRandomWallpaper = Get-ChildItem -Recurse $myPictureFolder |where {$_.Extension -eq ".jpg"} | Get-Random -Count 1
Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop\' -name wallpaper -value $getRandomWallpaper.FullName
rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters
rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters
rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters |
Download Link : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Set-Random-Wallpaper-Using-e79e423
Note: I tested this on windows 7 32 bit only.
Thanks
Aman Dhally
