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-e79e4235
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$env:USERPROFILE -ChildPath Pictures .}
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$myPictureFolder=‘C:\Users\aman.dhally\Pictures\’ |
Now, i am running Get-ChildItem (dir) on our Picture folder, and using Get-Random cmdlet, i am choosing any single wallpaper randomly.
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$getRandomWallpaper=Get-ChildItem-Recurse$myPictureFolder|where {$_.Extension -eq“.jpg”} |Get-Random-Count 1 |
Now we are using Set-ItemProperty to set the select wallpaper to the desktop.
To update the desktop we have to use rundll32.exe and to be frank, until we don’t run the ”
rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters
” code 3-4 time wallpaper wont change. or we reboot the laptop.
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Set-ItemProperty-path‘HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop\’-name wallpaper -value$getRandomWallpaper.FullName rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters |
Completer Script
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$myPictureFolder=‘C:\Users\AD\Pictures\WallPapers\IronMan’
# $myPictureFolder = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE -ChildPath Pictures $getRandomWallpaper=Get-ChildItem-Recurse$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
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Download Link : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Set-Random-Wallpaper-Using-e79e4235
Note: I tested this on windows 7 32 bit only.
