there's an xp power toy on the ms site. does the job well enough, but it wanders through the list rather than being random. posted by twine42 at 2:37 AM on August 9, 2004
This is the second time in a few days that someone has asked a question I was just begining to idly wonder about. (Wireless power being the other.) Thanks much.
PictureShare.net has a free app that will manage them all and fade them in and out, a la Mac. It's free, and seems pretty harmless. posted by gramcracker at 7:22 AM on August 9, 2004
Not useful response: I had this conundrum a while ago, and started writing just such a program. It was really cool and could do neat things with scaling like xv and some other cool tricks like blending semi-transparent wall papers with your desktop colour. Then I lost all the source in a hard drive crash :( posted by Capn at 8:04 AM on August 9, 2004
For what it's worth, Quickchanger seemed really cool but just completely froze up my computer (win xp). posted by CunningLinguist at 8:20 AM on August 9, 2004
Webshots works for me, and gives me new wallpapers every so often. posted by ruwan at 1:50 PM on August 9, 2004
If anyone wanders across this through searching, I ended up using dWall. It didn't suck, which put it above many of the others. For instance, Quickchanger looks pretty cool but used a hideous resizing algorithm in scaling up. I think it just repeats rows. And Pictureshare makes you add each wallpaper to a list, so you can't just have a wallpaper directory that you dump files in. Dwall is simple, doesn't have an ugly skin, has a few useful options, and does the job. Only negative is that you have to specify wallpaper change time in minutes, when I want something more like days. Calculator solves that problem though. posted by smackfu at 9:23 PM on August 29, 2004
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