Random wallpaper changer in windowblinds 7?

Am I blindly passing it up or it was omitted?

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I have been looking through the forum and on google but I can't seem to find out any information of the random wallpaper feature being in WB7.  I have been using the standard interface w/ random wallpaper changes every 1 hour. After my last update through Impulse, I no longer have the option of using the older interface and must use the new UI. The thing is, I do not see any way to randomize the wallpaper.

I had WB set to use a folder with all halloween wallpapers. The odd thing is, I removed the halloween folder form WB wallpapers and they do not show up in the UI as expected, but when I choose a wallpaper, after 1 hour, it changes back to a halloween wallpaper, cycling every hour ;P   So, that leaves me to believe that the feature exists in the new WB, but obviously something is not right. Maybe if I can get to the settings I could fix it.   Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :ninja:

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you for the referral but I have already tried google and got nothing. The closest I found was searching for "windowblinds 7 random wallpaper" but only to no avail. I find no mention of random wallpaper on stardock's website. I think that my wallpaper is on infinite random loop stuck in random from the old interface setting.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The next WB update will force the random feature to off.

The new UI does not support this feature right now.  We may add random wallpapers back to WB 7.1

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

DeskScapes also has a Desktop Slideshow dream that will allow you to apply random wallpapers.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

If you want to have random wallpapers in the meantime, I have two suggestions. One is a program I used for yars, until very recently, called Automatic Wallpaper Changer. It has many options and you can specify how often to change wallpapers. I have so many that I set it to every 4 hours.

The second suggestion is only if you have Windows 7. It has a built in wallpaper changer. Just right click on the desktop and click Personalize. At the bottom of the window click on Desktop Background. When the new window shows you can pick a directoy or Library to get your wallpapers from, set how ofen you want them to change, and how to display them. I made a new library with all of my wallpaper directories in it so it would be easier.

At first I wasn't using the built in feature because when I made the library windows didn't seem to show direcories more than 2 levels deep. I decided I should put most of them together anyway and ended up with just 3 directories in the Wallpaper Library, and now they work fine.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hum, thanks, just learned something.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks for all the input (I just watched Short Circut with my nephew, so Johny 5 saying input has been stuck in my head!) :P WB should really have kept the random wallpaper. I don't understand why that feature was removed.  I will look into the Desktop Slideshow. I have Dreamscapes but when I reinstalled windows I never bothered to re-install it.  Great tip on Windows 7, had no idea that is a feature. In another six months or so when the initial bugs are out I plan on upgrading to Windows 7. Maybe then I will get a break from those over eager (NOT RESPONDING) messages in Vista!!!!

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I upgarded to the new Dreamscapes & it works great! (V2 Dreamscapes one had a lot of problems with crashing on Vista x64). I have it set to rotate a folder of Christmas backgrounds every 5 minutes with the Snow effect overlay.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

I am sorry, I have posted on this issue in another thread before spotting this one.

And alas here I found what I was fearing... wallpaper changer gone from WB7, without even Stardock telling you the news.

I can understand that wallpaper changing was not the core business of WB, but at least you should inform people when removing some functionality from an upgrade.

All in all, knowing this I would at least have considered keeping my trusted WB6.4 until this was reintroduced (Neil talks about WB7.1, but it seems far from sure).

Of course there are plenty alternative apps that do this job, even freeware ones, but the point was exactly to avoid any uncessary cluttering of programs in memory.

Thanks for the attention,

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

wallpaper changer gone from WB7, without even Stardock telling you the news.
End of quote

Are you talking about random wallpapers?  WindowBlinds still has the ability to change your wallpaper.

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

The randomness is not crucial.... it is the automation that matters most, i.e. the ability to change, at boottime or every hour, the wallpaper without user intervention. This was readily done with WB6. Random selection is just ad additional plus.

Also I have read somewhere in these forums that the functionality is still present in WB7 but there is no UI for it: so it's just a matter of a small combo list being added in some corner of the interface for wallpapers? Good news and bad news at the same time..... Why leave it out when so little an effort was required?

Do you know what is the timeframe to have the automatic wallpaper change re-enabled, if ever?

Next upgrade or which one after that? And will it take 2 weeks... or 2 months... or whatever?

Thanks for the interest in the matter!

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Add me to the list of folks who want to see the automatic wallpaper changing back in WB7. I'm reluctant to install the next upgrade because it will force the changing off (which is still going with the list I had when I "upgraded" to WB7).