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Automatically Swapping your Desktop Wallpaper

One of the first things that a user does to customize their computer is switching the wallpaper away from the Windows default. While Vista’s included wallpapers are the best to ship with Windows yet, they still get tiring soon enough. I love high quality wallpapers, usually of the outdoors and scenic variety - I probably change my wallpaper a few times a month and I use InterfaceLIFT for most of my source material.  With this frequency, it hasn’t taken long to assemble quite a beautiful collection. Because of this, I started searching for a simple program that would automatically change my wallpaper on a schedule. Enter John’s Background Switcher, a freeware application for Windows.

As you’ve already guessed, John’s Background Switcher does just that. But, not only can it pull photos from a local folder, it can also use photos from most of the popular online photo services such as Flickr and Picasa. While there are a great number of options available to you, it was quite trivial to get it up and going when sourcing from a local folder - my desired choice. The only downside for me was it being a bit heavy on system resources, memory in particular, for what amounts to little more than a cool toy. Still, it serves a purpose and it does it quite well!

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